The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War is a book by Graham Robb.

The book, a result of cycling 14,000 miles (23,000 km) around France coupled with four years of research, is an in-depth examination of French national identity as seen through the diverse cultures and languages contained within the country.

[2] In the Boston Globe, Richard Eder suggested that the time spent on the bicycle provided Robb with a fresh approach to telling the history of France, but the four years he spent in the library meant there was a "conscientious pursuit" of detail within the book, covering such a wide variety of topics such as road building, touring, postcards, seaside development, spas, cave exploration, marsh reclamation, and the mountaineering vogue, which weighed the book down and detracted from the core themes.

He detected that "its appeal has more to do with….the opinion of a certain segment of the Anglo-American middle class, for whom Robb’s anti-modernist green progressivism has broad resonance".

[6] David Bell, Professor of History at Princeton University, called it "a distressingly bad book", being little more than a "recycling of nineteenth-century myths".