Late-antiquity: This is just a personal favourite and it's not exclusive to France, but I love Pierre Chuvin's The Last Pagans. Medieval: heard good things about Barbara Tuchmans' A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. read more
For Enlightenment/Revolution history, look to Lynn Hunt. Try History of Human Rights and Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. I particularly like The Family Romance of the French Revolution. For Second Empire, read David Harvey's Paris: Capital of Modernity For Third Republic France on, I would recommend Popkin's Modern France. read more
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