by Brian Moynahan · Flammarion · tapa dura · ISBN 9782080116611
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«Les Français: La traversée du XXe siècle» is the historical essay by Brian Moynahan, published by Flammarion in hardback (479 pages, in French).
The author surveys contemporary France in six chronological chapters covering politics, science, sport and culture. It begins at the 1900 Universal Exhibition and reaches the present day, with attention to the presidents of the Fifth Republic and the figures of each era; the photographs, many previously unpublished, complete the portrait of the French.
The book was originally published in 2009 and includes a foreword by Franck Ferrand.
For readers interested in the history of France and in illustrated historical essays.
Brian Moynahan was an English journalist, historian and biographer. He was born in 1941, the son of the dermatologist Edmund Moynahan of Guy's Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. He was educated at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was a Foundation Scholar and editor of the student magazines Cambridge Opinion and Broadsheet. He graduated in 1962 with a double First in history.
