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. 5: Military Service (I)
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 caf6 des habitue's, Jacques Tati country; everything threatened by the New France of technocracy.