Pierre Nora (Editor)
Les lieux de mémoire.
Paris: Gallimard, 2004/2003/2004. Collection Quarto. 2070749029 2070749037 2070749045 4751 pages.
Three-volume softcover set, each volume measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", exhibits light shelfwear. Bindings are sound. Pages are clean and bright.
""Les Lieux de mémoire" is perhaps one of the most profound historical documents on the history and culture of the French nation. Assembled by Pierre Nora during the Mitterand years, this multivolume series has been hailed as "a magnificent achievement" (The New Republic) and "the grandest, most ambitious effort to dissect, interpret and celebrate the French fascination with their own past" (The Los Angeles Times). Written during a time when French national identity was undergoing a pivotal change and the nation was struggling to define itself, this unprecedented series consists of essays by prominent historians and cultural commentators which take, as their points of departure, a "lieu de mémoire": a site of memory used to order, concentrate, and secure notions of France's past."