Still learning French

A Concise history of France is a bit dry, not for the faint of heart lol: strong focus on socio-economic factor is one of the book's characteristics.

Interesting that Simon Schama's Citizens is not on the bibliography. Tackett is, so put his book

http://www.amazon.com/When-King-Flight-Timothy-Tackett/dp/0674016424/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409939226&sr=8-1&keywords=tackett+when+king

on hold.

Anyway just started the 19th century section, and high time, since I also borrowed Stendhal:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Black-Modern-Library/dp/0679601627/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1409892137&sr=8-2&keywords=stendhal+modern+library

Scott-Moncrieff(famous for Proust) version is a bit old, but they say it's closest to Stendhal's French(I do have other versions), so looking forward to it.

Allez!