By Jean Dunbabin
Overlaying the centuries among the disintegration of the Carolingian empire and the increase of the French monarchy, this publication strains the lengthy interval of gestation that ended with the emergence of the dominion of France as a recognizable entity, either at the map of Europe and within the minds of its population.
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