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Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry, was a French historian, perhaps best known for his work on the history of France during the medieval era. Historical Essays and Narratives of the Merovingian Era is……続きを見る

In this amazing eBook you can find more than one hundred facts about the country of France. Separated into sections such as its geography, its people, famous French figures and many more you will fi……続きを見る

The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). Complete in 1844, it is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of……続きを見る

General Thiébault was always destined for a career in the military: his father was a professor in the military school in Berlin and a friend of Frederick the Great. Having started as a volunteer in ……続きを見る

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General Thiébault was always destined for a career in the military: his father was a professor in the military school in Berlin and a friend of Frederick the Great. Having started as a volunteer in ……続きを見る

La vie de Vidocq a été une suite d'aventures à ce point extraordinaires que l'on ne comprend pas pourquoi les romanciers, qui ont fait de lui le héros de leurs récits imaginaires, ne se sont pas con……続きを見る

In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planni……続きを見る

Les Khouan André Cochut, économiste, directeur du Mont de piété de Paris (1807-1890) Ce livre numérique présente «Les Khouan», de André ……続きを見る

De la colonisation de l’Algérie André Cochut, économiste, directeur du Mont de piété de Paris (1807-1890) Ce livre numérique présente «De la c……続きを見る

La Chambre de l’arsenal Pierre Clément, historien, érudit, économiste et bibliothécaire éminent (1809-1870) Ce livre numérique présente «La Ch……続きを見る

Tatiana du Plessix, the wife of a French diplomat, was a beautiful, sophisticated "white Russian" who had been the muse of the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Alexander Liberman, the ambiti……続きを見る

This new translation offers readers of English a unique look at eighteenth century London and England generally, compared to Paris and France in the same period. It was written by the sharp-tongued……続きを見る

La Sorcière Jules Michelet, historien français (1798-1874) Ce livre numérique présente «La Sorcière», de Jules Michelet, édité en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder di……続きを見る

“If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it." This was the measured and just opinion of Marshal Suchet. Out of the graveyard for reputation that S……続きを見る

Theodore Child explores Americans and American Art at the Paris World's Fair (Exposition Universelle) of 1889. Theodore Child (1846-1892) was a travel writer and discerning Art Critic of the late ni……続きを見る

France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake," was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime. For centuries since, she has been the ……続きを見る

Amongst the many memoirs of the Napoleonic period, there are a number that stand out not just for their historical value, but also for their actual written style; however, in this sense Lejeune stan……続きを見る

The 29th Bulletin of the Grand Armée of the French Empire arrived in the heart of Paris on the 16th of December 1812, causing an uproar and consternation. Napoleon admitted that he had lost huge num……続きを見る

For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odd……続きを見る

Alphonse Aulard, (1849-1928) historien français érudit, est titulaire de la première chaire d'histoire de la Révolution française à la Sorbonne à pa……続きを見る

Perhaps the most famous of all Napoleonic memoirs to be written in any language are those written by Marbot. They stand in a league of their own. Napoleon, himself left a donation of 100,000 to him,……続きを見る

Europe’s imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the coloniz……続きを見る

Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations. Of the many commentators of Napoleon and his campaigns, few if any have as much ground……続きを見る

The Nazis caught him, but they couldn't hold himーa gripping WWII memoir from a D-Day paratrooper and American hero. A paratrooper in the 101st Airborne, James Sheeran was just a kid when he floated……続きを見る

Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old R……続きを見る

This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321. During this time the crown tried to f……続きを見る

Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the “technologi……続きを見る

Les Emeutes sous Louis XIV Pierre Clément, historien, érudit, économiste et bibliothécaire éminent (1809-1870) Ce livre numérique présente «Les Emeutes sous Louis XIV», de Pierre Clément, édité en t……続きを見る

Many know of the French army that marched under Napoleon’s eagles to triumph after triumph before the Emperor’s last gamble failed at Waterloo. However, the army that drove the French all the way to……続きを見る