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Librairie Larousse, Histoire de France illustree / 2000 ans d'images [Published Date: 1984]. Hardcover, 172 pp. Text in French. No other printings listed.
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In very good condition/ NO dust jacket. Glossy illustrated paper over boards have a small nick to the paper over the bottom corner of the spine and light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. This is a sumptuous retrospective presented through images - drawings, engravings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, archival documents. The author, Bernardine Melchior-Bonnet, a well-known historian who specializes in the 19th century, brings the past to life by presenting it as seen by eyewitnesses of each era. Accompanied by a clear and concise text, in a very secure chronological framework, this remarkable iconography parades the great upheavals that shook France during the period of 1815 - 1851. [from back cover] C'est par l'image - dessins, gravures, peintures, sculptures, photographies, documents d'archives - que cette Histoire de France redonne vie au passe en le presentant tel que l'ont vu les temoins oculaires de chaque epoque. Accompagnee d'un texte clair et concis, dans un cadre chronologique tres sur, cette remarquable iconographie fait defiler les grands bouleversements qui ont secoue la France, ses heures glorieuses et exaltantes ainsi que ses malheurs et ses sursauts d'energie apres les tempetes. Elle montre en meme temps l'existnece et les travaux quotidiens, les moeurs et le cadre de vie de differents groupes sociaux, l'activite intellectuelle et artistique, l'evolution des modes, les inventions techniques, les decouvertes scientifiques. Une somptuesuse retrospective de ce que la France a ete pour devenir ce qu'elle est aujourd'hui.