{"id":6391,"date":"2021-10-18T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T11:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=189542"},"modified":"2021-10-18T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:38:08","slug":"a-family-history-of-france","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/a-family-history-of-france\/","title":{"rendered":"A family history of France"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Elinor Evans\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 18 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Following the fortunes of one extended family in a south-western French town in the 18th and 19th centuries, Emma Rothschild\u2019s Cundill History Prize<\/a>-shortlisted book An Infinite History<\/em> builds up a picture of what life was like for ordinary people in provincial France. She tells Rhiannon Davies how generations of the family survived revolution, wars and sweeping economic changes, to reveal a fascinating story of France\u2019s history from below.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Emma Rothschild is the author of <i>An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries<\/i> (Princeton, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/an-infinite-history-the-story-of-a-family-in-france-over-three-centuries\/9780691200309"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Infinite-History-Family-France-Centuries\/dp\/0691200300?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-0"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""sponsored" noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/an-infinite-history\/emma-rothschild\/9780691200309"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\""https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/"\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\""https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/afamilyhistoryoffrance\/media.mp3"\"><span class=\""standard-button__iefix"\"><span class=\""standard-button__visible"\"><span class=\""standard-button__inner"\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\""lazy"\" style=\""border-radius:\" src=\""https:\/\/historyextra.podlink.to\/Podcast?embed=true"\" width=\""480"\" height=\""900"\" frameborder=\""0"\" data-mce-fragment=\""1"\"\/><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elinor Evans Published: Monday, 18 October 2021 at 12:00 am Following the fortunes of one extended family in a south-western French town in the 18th and 19th centuries, Emma Rothschild\u2019s Cundill History Prize-shortlisted book An Infinite History builds up a picture of what life was like for ordinary people in provincial France. She tells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":6392,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/a-family-history-of-france.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/a-family-history-of-france-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/a-family-history-of-france-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/a-family-history-of-france.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/a-family-history-of-france.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/a-family-history-of-france.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/10\/a-family-history-of-france.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Elinor Evans Published: Monday, 18 October 2021 at 12:00 am Following the fortunes of one extended family in a south-western French town in the 18th and 19th centuries, Emma Rothschild\u2019s Cundill History Prize-shortlisted book An Infinite History builds up a picture of what life was like for ordinary people in provincial France. She tells…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/6391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}