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L'histoire De La Lingerie reviewed in The Gloss
Please check Lilit Marcus glowing review of HISTOIRE DE LA LINGERIE by Chantal Thomass and Catherine Ormen:

The French sure know how to put together a book. L’histoire de la Lingerie (The History of Lingerie), by Chantal Thomass and Catherine Ormen, comes inside a small pink box and is carefully wrapped in black tissue paper. And while the book itself is an exhaustively researched tome that covers everything from corsets to Bardot, even non-French speakers can enjoy out the gorgeous quality photographs that trace the history of women’s undergarments. The authors each bring their own sensibilities to the text: Thomass, a well-known lingerie designer, has the technical prowess to delight every fashion nerd. Ormen, a scholar of fashion history and founder of the Museum of Fashion in Marseille, clearly knows the ways that lingerie has appeared in classic film and literature (Proust’s Odette deservedly gets a mention, alongside everyone from Twiggy to several Bond girls.)

Right now, the book is only available in French. If you’re fluent or if you’re not, the book is a great conversation piece, and it’s about twenty times sexier than any other coffee table book you own. And if it comes out in English, I’ll be first in line to get it.

http://thegloss.com/culture/lhistoire-de-la-lingerie-is-so-sexy-it-wont-matter-if-you-dont-understand-french/
 
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Rethinking France
Rethinking France edited by Pierre Nora,the fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora’s monumental series documenting the history and culture of France has just been released in English by the University of Chicago Press.

Distinguished contributors look at the medieval Grands chroniques de France and the monasteries and chancelleries that produced them, the establishment of Versailles as a historical museum, and Pierre Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire, an important touchstone of cultural memory. Other essays range in topic from the creation of the National Archives, a curiously organized catacomb of manuscripts, to Annales, a publication begun in 1929 that profoundly revitalized the study of history in France.

Taken together these richly detailed essays fully explore the multifaceted ways France has institutionalized its history and are, along with the rest of Les Lieux de mémoire, a crucial part of that process.

Pierre Nora is a French historian well known for his work on French identity and memory. David P. Jordan is the LAS Distinguished Professor of French History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Transforming Paris and The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre.
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