Because the French need a historical penance, because there are true French heroes to look up to, we offer up this section dedicated to Blaise Pascal - one of the great Christian thinkers.

Was it not a Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, who gave us Democracy in America - the great work praising America?

This blogger thrilled to the works of Alexander Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, and the French based novels Scaramouche (Italian author Rafael Sabatini) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (Hungarian author Baroness Orczy).

So, let us dig in and enjoy some French past even if the French present disappoints.

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