France since the 1970s
- Until the mid-20th century
- France saw itself as a great power with universalist aspirations and global ambitions
- But the Second World War and decolonisation irrevocably changed France's place in the world
- Despite attempts to restore the country's 'grandeur' in the 1960s
- The French have been forced to reconcile themselves to their modest place at the heart of a changing Europe
- What impact has this had on political life
- How have the French reimagined the revolutionary
- Republican and reactionary ideologies that have been so crucial to their history
- How has the arrival of hundreds of thousands of postcolonial migrants transformed politics
- These are just some of the questions at the heart of France since the 1970s
