Images of France. History, people, tradition

For those who want to understand the French, this is a very useful book. A systematic presentation of French history is combined in it with penetration into national psychology and a description of the details of everyday life. Having written a lot of works devoted to France - its stories, traditions, customs and, of course, people who personify all this - Vladislav Smirnov this time set himself the task of creating a portrait of this wonderful country against the backdrop of a modern era. This portrait consists of many individual features, reflecting the French memory of the great past and their search for their place in a difficult present. In the center of this portrait "Middle Frenchman" is a gall with an admixture of Arabic blood, a royalist and republican at the same time, a Catholic, but partially a Muslim, in whose national character individualism is adjacent to wit, and rationalism is balanced by frivolity.
Vladislav Smirnov - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Department of New and Newest History of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov