Books: Briefly Noted

France in the World, edited by Patrick Boucheron, Stéphane Gerson, et al. (Other Press). The hundred and thirty-one short essays that make up this provocative history of France cover a striking array of topics: the Chauvet cave paintings, the transformation of French Guiana into a penal colony, Chanel No. 5. The aim of this disparateness is to replace a nationalist narrative of linear progression, from the Gauls to now, with a web of surprising transnational connections. France’s role in the early Renaissance is linked to its military expansion in Naples; the fervor surrounding the visions of St. Bernadette of Lourdes, in 1858, is seen in terms of viral news, foreshadowing the global spread of the 1968 protests. What You Have Heard Is True, by Carolyn Forché (Penguin). This memoir by a…

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