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Books The English and Their, That Sweet Enemy: Britain an, France - 1814‑1914, The Paris Commune - 1871, The war against Paris - 1871 Similar David Abulafia, Marina Roy, John Henrik Clarke, Maurice Vaïsse, Robert Toombs | ||
Robert Tombs (born 1949) is a British historian of France, and professor of French history at St John's College, Cambridge. His specialism is nineteenth-century France, particularly the Paris Commune. His work, focused on the political culture of the working classes, led him to revise a number of myths associated with the history of the Commune—in this he is similar to the French historian Jacques Rougerie.
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His first book, The War Against Paris, 1871, analyzed the role of the French army in the suppression of the Paris Commune.
In 2006, with his wife, Isabelle Tombs, he wrote a history of the relationship between Britain and France, "That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present". A review in The Independent described it as "stronger on war than on peace... despite the twin authorship, it is a very English perspective, resolutely empirical, deeply anti-theory." His wife, Isabelle Tombs (née Bussy), was born in France and is in charge of French training at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
In 2014, Tombs published The English and their History, which was widely reviewed.
His retirement was announced in August 2016.
Robert tombs on bbc breakfast for politeia
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