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===Surveys and reference===
===Surveys and reference===
* Goubert, Pierre. ''The Course of French History'' (1991), standard French textbook [http://www.amazon.com/Course-French-History-Pierre-Goubert/dp/0415066719/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197851902&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]; also [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-course-of-french-history-by-pierre-goubert.jsp complete text online]  
* Goubert, Pierre. ''The Course of French History'' (1991), standard French textbook [http://www.amazon.com/Course-French-History-Pierre-Goubert/dp/0415066719/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197851902&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]; also [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-course-of-french-history-by-pierre-goubert.jsp complete text online]  
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* Jones, Colin, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. ''The Cambridge Illustrated History of France'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Illustrated-History-France/dp/0521669928/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197883372&sr=8-11 excerpt and text search]  
* Jones, Colin, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. ''The Cambridge Illustrated History of France'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Illustrated-History-France/dp/0521669928/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197883372&sr=8-11 excerpt and text search]  
* Popkin, Jeremy D. ''A History of Modern France'' (2005), 384pp; textbook coverage from 1750s; [http://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-France-Jeremy-Popkin/dp/0131932934/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198863122&sr=1-4 excerpt and text search]
* Popkin, Jeremy D. ''A History of Modern France'' (2005), 384pp; textbook coverage from 1750s; [http://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-France-Jeremy-Popkin/dp/0131932934/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1198863122&sr=1-4 excerpt and text search]
* Hally, E.J. ''Intermediate European History'' (1968)
* Price, Roger. ''A Concise History of France'' (1993) [http://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-France-Cambridge-Histories/dp/052136809X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202469887&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
 
===Middle Ages===
===Middle Ages===
* see also [[Annales School]]
* Duby, Georges. ''France in the Middle Ages 987-1460: From Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc'' (1993), survey by a leader of the [[Annales School]] [http://www.amazon.com/France-Middle-Ages-987-1460-History/dp/0631189459/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202469887&sr=8-10 excerpt and text search]
*  Bloch, Marc. ''Feudal Society: Vol 1: The Growth and Ties of Dependence'' (1989); ''Feudal Society: Vol 2: Social Classes and Political Organisation''(1989) [http://www.amazon.com/Feudal-Society-Classes-Political-Organisation/dp/0415039185/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197756316&sr=8-17 excerpt and text search]
* Bloch, Marc.  ''French Rural History an Essay on Its Basic Characteristics'' (1972)
* Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. ''Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1294-1324'' (1978) [http://www.amazon.com/Montaillou-Promised-Emmanuel-LeRoy-Ladurie/dp/0394729641/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197944872&sr=8-6 excerpt and text search]
* Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. ''The Peasants of Languedoc'' (1966; English translation 1974) [http://www.amazon.com/Peasants-Languedoc-Emmanuel-Roy-Ladurie/dp/0252006356/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197945162&sr=8-2ext search]
* Potter, David. ''France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500,'' (2003)  [http://www.amazon.com/France-Middle-1200-1500-Oxford-History/dp/0199250472/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197883203&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Potter, David. ''France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500,'' (2003)  [http://www.amazon.com/France-Middle-1200-1500-Oxford-History/dp/0199250472/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197883203&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
===Early Modern===
===Early Modern===
* Holt, Mack P. ''Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500-1648'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Renaissance-Reformation-France-1500-1648-History/dp/0198731655/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202469887&sr=8-6 excerpt and text search]
* Potter, David. ''A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation-State'' (1995)
* Potter, David. ''A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation-State'' (1995)
====Old Regime====
====Old Regime====
*  Doyle, William. ''Old Regime France: 1648-1788'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Old-Regime-France-1648-1788-History/dp/0198731299/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202469887&sr=8-9 excerpt and text search]
* Goubert, Pierre. ''Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen'' (1972), social history from [[Annales School]]
* Jones, Colin. ''The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Great-Nation-Napoleon-Penguin-History/dp/0140130934/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197705067&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Jones, Colin. ''The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Great-Nation-Napoleon-Penguin-History/dp/0140130934/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197705067&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. ''The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 - 1774'' (1999), survey by leader of the [[Annales School]] [http://www.amazon.com/Ancien-Regime-History-France-1610/dp/0631211969/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202469887&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
* Lynn, John A. ''The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714'' (1999) [http://www.amazon.com/Wars-Louis-1667-1714-Modern-Perspective/dp/0582056292/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202467216&sr=1-5 excerpt and text search]
* Wolf, John B. ''Louis XIV'' (1968), the standard scholarly biography [http://www.questia.com/read/103250721 online edition]
====Enlightenment====
====Enlightenment====
* Baker, Keith Michael. ''Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics.'' 1975.  
* Baker, Keith Michael. ''Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics.'' 1975.  
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====Restoration: 1815-1870====  
====Restoration: 1815-1870====  
* Agulhon, Maurice. ''The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1983) [http://www.amazon.com/Republican-Experiment-1848-1852-Cambridge-History/dp/0521289882/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197883571&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search]
* Agulhon, Maurice. ''The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1983) [http://www.amazon.com/Republican-Experiment-1848-1852-Cambridge-History/dp/0521289882/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197883571&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search]
* Echard, William E. ''Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870'' (1985) [http://www.questia.com/read/26477439?title=Historical%20Dictionary%20of%20the%20French%20Second%20Empire%2c%201852-1870 online edition]
* Plessis, Alain. ''The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852 - 1871'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) [http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Second-Empire-1852/dp/0521358566/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b excerpt and text search]
* Plessis, Alain. ''The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852 - 1871'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) [http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Second-Empire-1852/dp/0521358566/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b excerpt and text search]
* Price, Roger. ''A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France'' (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. [http://www.questia.com/library/book/a-social-history-of-nineteenth-century-france-by-roger-price.jsp complete text online at [[Questia]]]
* Price, Roger. ''A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France'' (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. [http://www.questia.com/library/book/a-social-history-of-nineteenth-century-france-by-roger-price.jsp complete text online at [[Questia]]]
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====Third Republic: 1871-1940====
====Third Republic: 1871-1940====
* Bernard, Philippe, and Henri Dubief. ''The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914 - 1938''  (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) [http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Third-Republic-1914-Cambridge/dp/052135854X/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2 excerpt and text search]
* Bernard, Philippe, and Henri Dubief. ''The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914 - 1938''  (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) [http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Third-Republic-1914-Cambridge/dp/052135854X/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2 excerpt and text search]
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* Tucker, Spencer, ed. ''European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia'' (1999)
* Tucker, Spencer, ed. ''European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia'' (1999)
* Winter, J. M. ''Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919'' (1999)
* Winter, J. M. ''Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919'' (1999)
* see also [[World War I, Homefront]]


====Vichy (1940-44) ====
====Vichy (1940-44) ====
*  Azema, Jean-Pierre. ''From Munich to Liberation 1938-1944'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1985)
* Berthon, Simon.  ''Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry among Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle.'' (2001). 356 pp. 
* Funk, Arthur Layton. ''Charles de Gaulle: The Crucial Years, 1943-1944'' (1959) [http://www.questia.com/read/58600747 online edition]
* Gildea, Robert.  ''Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Marianne-Chains-France-During-Occupation/dp/0312423594/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195984332&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Gildea, Robert.  ''Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation'' (2004) [http://www.amazon.com/Marianne-Chains-France-During-Occupation/dp/0312423594/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195984332&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Jackson, Julian. ''France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/France-Years-1940-1944-Julian-Jackson/dp/0199254575/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195984384&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Jackson, Julian. ''France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/France-Years-1940-1944-Julian-Jackson/dp/0199254575/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195984384&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Kersaudy, Francois. ''Churchill and De Gaulle'' (2nd ed 1990 482pp
* Lacouture, Jean. ''De Gaulle: The Rebel 1890-1944'' (1984; English ed. 1991), 640pp; [http://www.amazon.com/Gaulle-Rebel-1890-1944-Norton-Paperback/dp/0393309991/ref=pd_sim_b_title_1 excerpt and text search]
* Paxton, Robert O.  ''Vichy France'' 2nd ed. (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Vichy-France-Robert-O-Paxton/dp/0231124694/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195984423&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Paxton, Robert O.  ''Vichy France'' 2nd ed. (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Vichy-France-Robert-O-Paxton/dp/0231124694/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195984423&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]


====Fourth and Fifth Republics (1944 to present)====
====Fourth and Fifth Republics (1944 to present)====
see also [[Charles de Gaulle]]
*  Berstein, Serge, and Peter Morris. ''The Republic of de Gaulle 1958-1969'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Gaulle-1958-1969-Cambridge-History/dp/0521272394/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205076945&sr=1-7 excerpt and text search]
* Berstein, Serge, Jean-Pierre Rioux, and Christopher Woodall. ''The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/Pompidou-1969-1974-Cambridge-History-Modern/dp/0521580617/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205076945&sr=1-9 excerpt and text search]
* Bourg, Julian ed. ''After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France'' (2004) 426 pp.ISBN 978-0-7391-0792-8.
* Cerny, Philip G.  ''The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy.'' (1980). 319 pp. 
* Hauss, Charles. ''Politics in Gaullist France: Coping with Chaos'' (1991) [http://www.questia.com/read/23380015 online edition]
* Kolodziej, Edward A. ''French International Policy under de Gaulle and Pompidou: The Politics of Grandeur'' (1974) [http://www.questia.com/read/9120986 online edition]
* Lacouture, Jean. ''De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970'' (1993)
* Northcutt, Wayne. ''Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991'' (1992)
* Northcutt, Wayne. ''Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991'' (1992)
*  Rioux, Jean-Pierre, and Godfrey Rogers. ''The Fourth Republic, 1944-1958'' (1989) (The Cambridge History of Modern France)
* Williams, Charles. ''The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle'' (1997) [http://www.amazon.com/Last-Great-Frenchman-General-Gaulle/dp/0471180718/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197884687&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Williams, Charles. ''The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle'' (1997) [http://www.amazon.com/Last-Great-Frenchman-General-Gaulle/dp/0471180718/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197884687&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Williams, Philip M. and Martin Harrison. ''De Gaulle's Republic'' (1965) [http://www.questia.com/read/54328775 online edition]
==Historiography==
see also [[Annales School]]
* Offen, Karen. "French Women's History: Retrospect (1789–1940) and Prospect," ''French Historical Studies'' 26, no. 4 (2003): 757+
* Thébaud, Françoise. "Writing Women's and Gender History in France: A National Narrative?" ''Journal of Women's History'' - Volume 19, Number 1, 2007, pp. 167-172 in [[Project Muse]]

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Surveys and reference

Middle Ages

  • see also Annales School
  • Duby, Georges. France in the Middle Ages 987-1460: From Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc (1993), survey by a leader of the Annales School excerpt and text search
  • Bloch, Marc. Feudal Society: Vol 1: The Growth and Ties of Dependence (1989); Feudal Society: Vol 2: Social Classes and Political Organisation(1989) excerpt and text search
  • Bloch, Marc. French Rural History an Essay on Its Basic Characteristics (1972)
  • Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1294-1324 (1978) excerpt and text search
  • Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Peasants of Languedoc (1966; English translation 1974) search
  • Potter, David. France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500, (2003) excerpt and text search

Early Modern

  • Holt, Mack P. Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500-1648 (2002) excerpt and text search
  • Potter, David. A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation-State (1995)

Old Regime

Enlightenment

  • Baker, Keith Michael. Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics. 1975.
  • Baker, Keith Michael. Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century. 1990. excerpt and text search
  • Becker, Carl L. The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers. 1932.
  • Blom, Philipp. Enlightening the World: Encyclopédie, the Book That Changed the Course of History. 2005. 416 pp. excerpt and text search
  • Chisick, Harvey. Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment. 2005. 512 pp
  • Delon, Michel. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (2001) 1480pp
  • Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism (1966, 2nd ed. 1995), 952 pp; excerpt and text search vol 1
  • Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom, (1969 2nd ed. 1995), a highly influential study excerpt and text search vol 2;
  • Goodman, Dena. The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (1994) 338 pp online edition
  • Hazard, Paul. European thought in the eighteenth century: From Montesquieu to Lessing (1965)
  • Kaiser, Thomas E. "This Strange Offspring of Philosophie: Recent Historiographical Problems in Relating the Enlightenment to the French Revolution." French Historical Studies 15 (Spring 1988): 549-62. in JSTOR
  • Kors, Alan Charles. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (4 vol. 1990; 2nd ed. 2003), 1984pp excerpt and tyext search
  • Mason, Haydn Trevor. Voltaire: A Biography. 1981. 194 pp.
  • Pearson, Roger. Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom. 2005. 447 pp.
  • Roche, Daniel. France in the Enlightenment. 1998. 736 pp.
  • Spencer, Samia I., ed. French Women and the Age of Enlightenment. 1984.
  • Vovelle, Michel and Cochrane, Lydia G., eds. Enlightenment Portraits. 1997. 456 pp.
  • Wilson, Arthur. Diderot. 1972.

Revolution

  • Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution (1989). online complete edition; also excerpt and text search
  • Doyle, William. The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. (2001), 120pp; online edition
  • Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. ed. The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History (ABC-CLIO: 3 vol 2006)
  • Frey, Linda S. and Marsha L. Frey. The French Revolution. (2004) 190pp online edition
  • Furet, François. The French Revolution, 1770-1814 (1996) excerpt and text search
  • Furet, François and Mona Ozouf, eds. A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (1989), 1120pp; long essays by scholars; conservative perspective; stress on history of ideas excerpt and online search from Amazon.com
  • Jones, Colin. The Longman Companion to the French Revolution (1989)
  • Jones, Colin. The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002) excerpt and text search
  • Neely, Sylvia. A Concise History of the French Revolution (2008)
  • Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. (2 vol 1959), highly influential comparative history; vol 1 online
  • Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution (1987), hundreds of short entries.
  • Schwab, Gail M., and John R. Jeanneney, eds. The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact (1995) online edition
  • Scott, Samuel F. and Barry Rothaus. Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 (2 vol 1984), short essays by scholars
  • Schama, Simon. Citizens. A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989), highly readable narrative by scholar excerpt and text search
  • Sutherland, D.M.G. France 1789–1815. Revolution and Counter-Revolution (2nd ed. 2003, 430pp excerpts and online search from Amazon.com

Napoleon

  • Emsley, Clive. Napoleon 2003 142 pp, very succinct coverage of life, France and empire; little on warfare
  • Englund, Steven. Napoleon: A Political Life. (2004). 575 pages; the best political biography excerpt and text search
  • Fisher, Herbert. Napoleon (1913) 256pp old classic online edition free
  • Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. ed. The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History (ABC-CLIO: 3 vol 2006)
  • Grab, Alexander. Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe. (2003), pp. 249, maps; excellent synthesis
  • Harold, J. Christopher. The Age of Napoleon (1963) 480pp, popular history stressing empire and diplomacy
  • Markham, Felix. Napoleon 1963. 304pp online edition
  • McLynn, Frank. Napoleon: A Biography (2003) 752pp, stress on military
  • Nafziger, George F. Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era. 2002. 353 pp.
  • Nicholls, David. Napoleon: A Biographical Companion. 1999. 300 pp.
  • Thompson, J. M. Napoleon Bonaparte: His Rise and Fall (1954), scholarly, well-balanced in topics, but pro-Britain

Restoration: 1815-1870

  • Agulhon, Maurice. The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1983) excerpt and text search
  • Echard, William E. Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870 (1985) online edition
  • Plessis, Alain. The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852 - 1871 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search
  • Price, Roger. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. complete text online at Questia
  • Zeldin

Third Republic: 1871-1940

  • Bernard, Philippe, and Henri Dubief. The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914 - 1938 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search
  • Lehning, James R.; To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic (2001) online edition
  • Mayeur, Jean-Marie, and Madeleine Rebirioux. The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search
  • Price, Roger. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. complete text online at Questia
  • Robb, Graham. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War (2007)
  • Weber, Eugen. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (1976) excerpt and text search
World War I
  • Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1999)
  • Winter, J. M. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919 (1999)

Vichy (1940-44)

  • Azema, Jean-Pierre. From Munich to Liberation 1938-1944 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1985)
  • Berthon, Simon. Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry among Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle. (2001). 356 pp.
  • Funk, Arthur Layton. Charles de Gaulle: The Crucial Years, 1943-1944 (1959) online edition
  • Gildea, Robert. Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation (2004) excerpt and text search
  • Jackson, Julian. France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 (2003) excerpt and text search
  • Kersaudy, Francois. Churchill and De Gaulle (2nd ed 1990 482pp
  • Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Rebel 1890-1944 (1984; English ed. 1991), 640pp; excerpt and text search
  • Paxton, Robert O. Vichy France 2nd ed. (2001) excerpt and text search

Fourth and Fifth Republics (1944 to present)

see also Charles de Gaulle

  • Berstein, Serge, and Peter Morris. The Republic of de Gaulle 1958-1969 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2006) excerpt and text search
  • Berstein, Serge, Jean-Pierre Rioux, and Christopher Woodall. The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2000) excerpt and text search
  • Bourg, Julian ed. After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France (2004) 426 pp.ISBN 978-0-7391-0792-8.
  • Cerny, Philip G. The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy. (1980). 319 pp.
  • Hauss, Charles. Politics in Gaullist France: Coping with Chaos (1991) online edition
  • Kolodziej, Edward A. French International Policy under de Gaulle and Pompidou: The Politics of Grandeur (1974) online edition
  • Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970 (1993)
  • Northcutt, Wayne. Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991 (1992)
  • Rioux, Jean-Pierre, and Godfrey Rogers. The Fourth Republic, 1944-1958 (1989) (The Cambridge History of Modern France)
  • Williams, Charles. The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle (1997) excerpt and text search
  • Williams, Philip M. and Martin Harrison. De Gaulle's Republic (1965) online edition

Historiography

see also Annales School

  • Offen, Karen. "French Women's History: Retrospect (1789–1940) and Prospect," French Historical Studies 26, no. 4 (2003): 757+
  • Thébaud, Françoise. "Writing Women's and Gender History in France: A National Narrative?" Journal of Women's History - Volume 19, Number 1, 2007, pp. 167-172 in Project Muse