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“... These two writers are both concerned with the old and the elderly, but to very different effect. Minois presents a repertoire of comments on the old, from the ancient world to the 16th century: most comments are hostile. Girning about the disagreeable features of the old seems to have been a recognised literary form ...”

“... reception precedes the composition of the text. This is the bibliographical paradox that animates Georges Minois’s account of an imaginary book whose infamy meant that it eventually had to be written. The Atheist’s Bible: The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed is a history of De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three Imposters: ‘an ...”

“... did not believe in double predestination and were quite as good at social solidarity as Catholics. Georges Minois’s A History of Suicide is an excellent companion to Murray. Only occasionally over-confident in a French sort of way, it is learned and readable, and beautifully translated by Lydia Cochrane. It covers the ground from the classics to ...”