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Edition 1919 Magnifique ouvrage retraçant la première guerre mondiale, par des illustrations, des écrits établis pendant ces années et concernant les différentes situations de 1914 à 1918. 続きを見る

CONSTRUCTION, APERÇU GÉNÉRAL.ーLa construction est une science; c’est aussi un art, c’est-à-dire qu’il faut au constructeur le savoir, l’expérience, et un sentiment naturel. On naît constructeur; la……続きを見る

"Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read." ーHilary Mantel, London Review of Books Since his……続きを見る

Uncompromising, often startling, meticulously documentedーthis book is an account of the government, and the governed, of colaborationist France. Basing his work on captured German archives and cont……続きを見る

Includes over 100 maps of the actions, engagements and battles of the entire Peninsular War. Whilst writing his magisterial The History of The Peninsular War, Sir Charles Oman gathered material that……続きを見る

Déjà connu auprès d'un public de passionnés, les Mille ans de langue française seront désormais accessibles en version poche. Une sortie qui fera date. Pour l'occasion, les auteurs ont travaillé à u……続きを見る

La Bruyère a travaillé pendant dix-sept ans avant de publier ce recueil de 420 « remarques », sous forme de maximes, de réflexions et de portraits, présenté comme une simple continuation des Caractè……続きを見る

A revelatory examination of the global impact of Emmanuel Macron's tumultuous presidency. A political novice leading a brand new party, in 2017 Emmanuel Macron swept away traditional political force……続きを見る

Discover the history of Europe - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe is an astonishingly successful place. But it would take volume……続きを見る

There is little doubt that the French Revolution of 1789 changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equalityーa distinctive signature of that revolutionーfind such fertile ……続きを見る

G. P. R. James's 'One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre' is a historical novel set during the reign of Henry IV of France. The book intertwines fictional characters with real historical ev……続きを見る

En 1880 Alexandre Dumas fils publie un texte très peu connu Les femmes qui tuent et les femmes qui votent, où il réclame l’accession des femmes à la vie politique. Cet extrait de la première partie ……続きを見る

During the reign of Louis XIV, a mysterious man was kept prisoner in Bastille. Who was he? The mysteries of 18th century France are explored in Paul Doherty's masterful novel, The Masked Man. Perfec……続きを見る

The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of ext……続きを見る

There is no more marvellous story in human history than that of Napoleon I., Emperor of the French. His career is one long demonstration of the reality of the proverb, “Truth is stranger than fictio……続きを見る

"A witty, engaging narrative style....[Robb's] approach is particularly engrossing."ーNew York Times Book Review, front-page review. A narrative of explorationーfull of strange landscapes and even s……続きを見る

May Picqueray (1898–1983) missed none of the major events in history during her lifetime. In 1921, she sent a parcel bomb (it exploded without casualties) to the US ambassador in Paris, to protest a……続きを見る

Cameralism and the Enlightenment reassesses the relationship between two key phenomena of European history often disconnected from each other. It builds on recent insights from global history, trans……続きを見る

"La Vie dangereuse" (1938) est composée de cinq récits, dans lesquels se mêlent des souvenirs "le Rayon vert," "J'ai saigné," des bribes de reportages "Fébronio," des récits d'explorateurs "la Femme……続きを見る

Déjà connu auprès d'un public de passionnés et de spécialistes, les Mille ans de langue française seront désormais accessibles en poche. Une sortie qui fera date. Pour l'occasion, les auteurs ont tr……続きを見る

'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their……続きを見る

Le sous-titre de la lettre précise largement le contenu : « Lettre historique et politique adressée à un magistrat sur le commerce de la librairie, son état ancien et actuel, ses règlements, ses pri……続きを見る

The greatest success of the Bavarian Illuminati conspiracy was the French Revolution of 1789. The profound impact of that Revolution is felt to this day in the political destinies of billions of peo……続きを見る

“I’d rather go to France with Ina Caro than with ?Henry Adams or Henry James.”ーNewsweek In one of the most inventive travel books in years, Ina Caro invites readers on twenty-five one-day train tri……続きを見る

The epitome of effervescence and centerpiece of celebration, Champagne has become a universal emblem of good fortune, and few can resist its sparkle In Champagne, Uncorked, Alan Tardi journeys into ……続きを見る

In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the midd……続きを見る

Ever since 1821, when he died at age fifty-one on the forlorn and windswept island of St. Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte has been remembered as either demi-god or devil incarnate. In The Rise of Napoleo……続きを見る

Balzac dénonce ici la toute puissance des journalistes de son temps, leur vanité vénale, la versatilité de leurs jugements et l’influence abusive qu’ils exercent sur les gouvernements. Ce textes dan……続きを見る

On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Dorée station in the Paris Métro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her nec……続きを見る

Une histoire de France à travers ses duos célèbres... Couples politiques mariant l'amour, l'intérêt et souvent les deux, couples littéraires et/ou d'influence, mythiques ou médiatiques, passionnels ……続きを見る