FRENCH TOAST

DAVID BERLINSKI, PARIS “France Hasn’t Said its Last Word” (La France n’a pas dit son dernier mot) by Éric Zemmour, Ed. Rubempré, September 2021.


THE EMPEROR

JOSHUA TREVIÑO, AUSTIN “The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History,” by Alexander Mikaberidze.


A Passage from India

DAVID BERLINSKI, PARIS Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race and Empire, by Pankaj Mishra, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 224 pp., $27.00.



CORN RUSTLING IN ARMAGNAC COUNTRY

CLAIRE BERlINSKI, PARIS In which three generations of Berlinskis, finding themselves in possession of a château and an Armagnac distillery in Nouvelle Aquitaine, spend a week impersonating the French landed gentry without being arrested. A family memoir.