A Rage for Abstraction
Jeremy Harding, 16 June 2016
The Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey through a City’s Poor and Bohemian Past
by Luc Sante.
Faber, 306 pp., £25, November 2015,978 0 571 24128 6 Show More
by Luc Sante.
Faber, 306 pp., £25, November 2015,
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
by Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Allen Lane, 427 pp., £20, June 2015,978 1 84614 602 2 Show More
by Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Allen Lane, 427 pp., £20, June 2015,
“... A stand-off in Sudan in 1898 between the British and the French was attended by a prodigious rattling of sabres in London and Paris. The two armies in the field never came to blows, but France lost face at Fashoda and a tide of Anglophobia engulfed the Parisian press. It lasted through the Boer wars and beyond. Le Petit Journal, a scurrilous right-wing Republican daily, which rounded on Dreyfus, then Zola, took up the cudgels on behalf of oppressed Afrikaners ... ”