UNE HISTOIRE DE FRANCE INÉDITÉ EN 100 CARTES:

The history of France from prehistory to the present day mapped out and narrated by bestselling Franch historian, Jean Sévillia.

In five parts - "The Origins", "The Kingdom of France", "The French Nation", "Modern Times" and "France Today" - and with 100 previously unpublished and richly detailed maps, this innovative work succeeds in bringing a new immediacy to French history. Among them :

• The Battle of Alesia
• The Division of Verdun
• The France of monasteries from the year 1000 to the 12th century, Romanesque or Gothic art
• The Crusades
• The France of François I
• The princely monuments of the Renaissance
• The residences of Louis XIV
• The fortified frontier of Vauban
• The Enlightenment
• Religious minorities in the 17th and 18th centuries
• The wars of the Vendée
• The France of the First Empire
• The revolution of 1830
• The construction of the railway network in the 19th century
• Literacy, urbanization and regional languages in 1900
• The Great War, its victims
• The legislative elections of 1936, those of 1946 – after occupied France and the liberation of the national territory
• French Algeria
• Decolonization
• The presidential elections of the Fifth Republic
• The motorway network
• The stages of European construction
• Delinquency and urban violence
• Single-parent families
• Recent military interventions
• The "Gilets Jaunes" (the Yellow Vests)
• The Coronavirus

Jean Sévillia comments on these subjects and maps, among many others, with mastery and conciseness. Offering both reading pleasure and erudition, this first History of France in maps allows us, most importantly, to understand the evolution of the French nation, to recognize its weaknesses and to appreciate its formidable riches.

An essayist and historian who writes a column for Figaro Magazine, JEAN SÉVILLIA has published numerous successful books including, with Perrin, Zita, impératrice courage (Zita, courageous empress, 1997), Le Dernier Empereur : Charles d'Autriche (The last emperor : Charles of Austria, 2009), Histoire passionnée de la France (A passionate history of France, 2013) and Écrits historiques de combat (Historical writings of combat, 2016). He co-edited, with Jean-Christophe Buisson, the collective work Les Derniers Jours des reines (The Last Days of the Queens, 2015).