The old ideals that formed the French Republic have crumbled to a battleground of competing ideologies and cultures. Here, Hussey travels from the post-industrial north to the badlands of the south, speaking to commentators, writers, and politicians, talking with locals and walking the streets, to trace the social, political and economic fault-lines that are shaping the new France.
ANDREW HUSSEY is a native of Liverpool who now lives in Paris. He is a historian of French culture and the author of Paris: The Secret History and The French Intifada.
The images of modern France that Andrew Hussey draws are varied, but most point to trouble ahead in what is still one of Europe's more equitable large countries. This book is a set of recent stories which only a fool would ignore
