A panorama of people, places and things, factual and fictional, in the traditionalist French-speaking culture of 1850 to 1950.
A series of 13 talks by Richard Cobb , Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. 7: Blood and Soil
This series could be sub-titled L'histoire des petites gens. ' L'histoire ' - the witness of both fact and fiction, ' petites gens' - a loving celebration of the quartier, the café des habitues, Jacques Tati country; everything threatened by the New France of technocracy.