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Zaynab**, first published in 1913, is widely cited as the first Arabic novel, yet the previous eight decades saw hundreds of novels translated into Arabic from English and French.** This vast litera……続きを見る

Désireuse de marquer son premier siècle d’existence et d’édifier un monument qui survive à une éphémère célébration, l’École normale supérieure avait publié en 1895 un Livre du Centenaire qui retraç……続きを見る

Topographie. ー Histoire. ー Situation actuelle. Je dois prévenir, en commençant ce chapitre, que j’ai emprunté, en partie et quelquefois textuellement, aux notices publiées par le gouvernement, les……続きを見る

QUAND les lois frappent de grands coupables, la persuasion, qui forme le supplément de ces lois, peut déployer sa puissance morale. Quel est notre but ? Nous voulons arracher des Français à l’influe……続きを見る

La Béronne fait partie du bassin de la Charente ; elle prend sa source dans la commune de l’Enclave de la Martinière (Deux-Sèvres), passe à Melle, Saint-Romans, Eurochon, Le Châtelier, Gennebrie, Ma……続きを見る

Position topographique de la ville de Grandpré ; Description de la vallée de l’Aire. La ville de Grandpré, chef-lieu de canton de l’arrondissement de Vouziers, département des Ardennes, est bâtie en……続きを見る

Est-il bien nécessaire de faire ici l’historique de notre célèbre station thermale ? A quoi bon ? Tous les Guides, présents et passés, de l’Etranger à Vichy, ont suffisamment parlé de l’occupation r……続きを見る

L’ARRIVÉE DE NAPOLÉON III A WILHELMSHŒHE. ー L’ÉTAT D’ESPRIT DE LA POPULATION. ー LA PREMIÈRE ENTREVUE. ー ASPECT PHYSIQUE DE L’EMPEREUR. ー STOÏCISME DES FRANÇAIS. ー PREMIERS RAPPORTS AVEC LES PRI……続きを見る

"What drove Napoleon to conquer Europe? What made his strategies so revolutionary that they still influence modern warfare today?" In The Napoleonic Empire: A Riveting Exploration of the Battles, St……続きを見る

Napoleon Bonaparte's life is a compelling saga of ambition, military prowess, and political innovation that reshaped Europe. Trained as an artillery officer in Corsica, Napoleon rose to prominence d……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

The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest members of the French Resistance and their war against the German occupiers and their collabor……続きを見る

Never in the history of warfare has the clash between such great and apparently equal forces been decided so swiftly and conclusively as the German conquest of France and the Low Countries in May an……続きを見る

The history of Admiral Horatio Nelson has been written from every possible angle, but this was not so with his ships. Not until this work was first published in 1955. Before then, such information a……続きを見る

Though Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, little is known about his early life. Even Foucault’s biographers have neglected this period, preferring instea……続きを見る

After the glorious victory of Vittoria, Wellington followed the retreating French army to the very borders of La Belle France itself. Facing him and his army of British, Portuguese and Spanish troop……続きを見る

With this book, we enter the home stretch of Marcel Proust's massive seven-volume novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (as published by the Modern Library in the 1930s). The whole work, itself, was ……続きを見る

Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations. Almost 200 years after the battles were fought, the Waterloo Campaign of 1815 still re……続きを見る

Napoleon wrote "Cavalry is useful before, during and after the battle"; and so it was with his final campaign of Waterloo. Few campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars are as instructive as to the use (and ……続きを見る

The Franco-War of 1870 marked an absolute watershed: France had been the military and cultural centre-point of mainland Europe for some centuries, its fashion copied, its armies feared and its langu……続きを見る

Autobiographies come in many shapes and forms, particularly those of the military genre. In this two-volume work, Field-Marshal Wood charts his remarkable career from the Navy to the highest rank in……続きを見る

A masterful, epic account of the Spanish Ulcer that drained Napoleon's resources and played a pivotal role in the end of his domination of Europe. The author served with distinction in the actions o……続きを見る

Autobiographies come in many shapes and forms, particularly those of the military genre. In this two-volume work, Field-Marshal Wood charts his remarkable career from the Navy to the highest rank in……続きを見る

This dense, daunting and ultimately rewarding book is volume three of Proust's epic A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Here, as always, the reader again wades chest-deep into Proust's ornate language (s……続きを見る

William Napier, was born in Dublin in 1785, one of a number of brothers who entered the British army and excelled in the service although it is his History of the War in the Peninsular that he is mo……続きを見る

This book is the fourth of seven volumes of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's popular translation of Proust's massive semi-autobiographical novel, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (as published by the Modern Li……続きを見る

After the defeat of Waterloo and the subsequent rout of the fragile French army's morale, all Europe craved peace. In the minds of many, there was one man who must be removed from the political land……続きを見る

Waterloo Illustration Pack – 14 maps/battle plans, 18 portraits of the personalities engaged, 10 illustrations. The Waterloo campaign of 1815 was a turning point in world history. After 25 years of ……続きを見る

This book forms part of General Beatson's trilogy dealing with the campaigns in and around the Pyrenees during late 1813 and 1814 and they are rightly acknowledged as the standard works on these cam……続きを見る

A fascinating look at the history of painting and sculpture in France by American journalist and literary critic W. C. Brownell. 続きを見る