WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT / European library

No. 645

*** YVES CLARISSE, JEAN QUATREMER: Les maîtres de l'Europe. Editions Grasset (61 rue des Saints-Pères, F-75006 Paris. Tel: [phone] - fax: [phone] - Internet: www.grasset.fr). 2005, 422 pp., € 20.50. ISBN 2-246-63721-X.

Journalists are often confronted with the comment “too long!”. In the press such as this, one is only required to confirm the rule on rare exceptions. An article is always too long, whatever information has been harvested in the investigation. A literary...