Description: Further DetailsTitle: In France ProfoundCondition: NewSubtitle: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a PeopleEAN: 9780802127846ISBN: 9780802127846Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/25/2024Description: From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life and discoveries in an ancient town in “Deep France,” from nearby prehistoric caves to medieval dynastic struggles to the colorful characters populating the area today When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's tumults. Instead, he found that humanity’s most telling melodramas, from the paleolithic to the post-modern, were graven in its stones and visible from its windows. Indeed, the history of France can be viewed from the perspective of Lauzerte and its surrounding area—just as Allman, from one window, can see Lauzerte unfold before him in the Place des Cornières, where he watches performances of the opera Tosca and each Saturday buys produce from “Fred, the Foie Gras Guy;” while from the other side facing the Pyrenees he surveys the fated landscape that generated many events giving birth to the modern world. The dynastic struggles of Eleanor of Aquitaine, he finds, led to Lauzerte’s remarkably progressive charter issued in 1241, which even then enshrined human rights in its 51 articles. From Eleanor’s marriage to English king Henry II in 1154 dates the never-ending melodrama pitting English arrogance against French resistance; in 2016 Brexit demonstrated that this perpetual contretemps is another of the vaster conditions life in Lauzerte illuminates. Allman chronicles the many conflicts that have swirled in the region, from the Catholic Church’s genocidal campaign to wipe out “heresy” there; to France’s own 16th-century Wars of Religion, which saw hundreds massacred in the town square, some inside his house; to World War II, during which Lauzerte was part of Nazi-occupied Vichy. In prose as crystalline as his view to the Pyrenees on a clear day, Allman animates Lauzerte and its surrounding communities—Cahors, Moissac, Montauban—all ever in thrall to the magnetic impulse of Paris. Witness to so many dramas over the centuries, his house comes alive as a historical protagonist in its own right, from its wine-cellar cave to the roof where he wages futile battle with pigeons, to the life lessons it conveys. “The onward march of history, my House keeps demonstrating, never takes a rest,” he observes, pulling us vividly into his world.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: T.D. AllmanGenre: BiographyTopic: History, Travel & TransportItem Width: 39mmRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: In France Profound
Title: In France Profound
Subtitle: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
EAN: 9780802127846
ISBN: 9780802127846
Release Date: 07/25/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: In France Profound : the Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
Number of Pages: 480 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Europe / France, Europe / Medieval
Item Height: 1.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel, History
Item Weight: 22.2 Oz
Author: T. D. Allman
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
