- Richard Cobb
Richard Cobb (1917-1996) was a British historian. He became Professor of Modern History at the
University of Oxford , after an initially unconventional academic career in which he spent a dozen years working as an independent scholar in French archives. His work was recognised in France by the award of membership of theLegion d'Honneur . He is known for his work on the background to theFrench Revolution , and for his autobiographical writings.Principal works
*"The People's Armies"
*"Terreur et subsistances, 1783-1795"
*"A Second Identity: Essays on France and French History"
*"The Police and the People: French Popular Protest, 1789-1820"
*"Reactions to the French Revolution"
*"Paris and its provinces, 1792-1802"
*"A Sense of Place"
*"Tour De France"
*"Death in Paris, 1795-1801"
*"Promenades. A Historian's Appreciation of Modern French Literature"
*"The Streets of Paris"
*"French and Germans, Germans and French. A personal interpretation of France under two occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944"
*"Still Life: Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood"
*"A Classical Education"
*"People and Places"
*"Something to Hold on to"
*"The End of the Line" (1997, published posthumously)
*"Paris and Elsewhere" (2004, published posthumously)External links
*worldcat id|lccn-n83-42515
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