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Before the shattering of the Napoleonic empire in 1815, Count Las Cases had served loyally for many years in the council of state. However, his most important service was to come after he followed h……続きを見る

Before the shattering of the Napoleonic empire in 1815, Count Las Cases had served loyally for many years in the council of state. However, his most important service was to come after he followed h……続きを見る

The body of Major-General Mackinnon now lies in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, next to his brother officer Major-General Robert Craufurd, both casualties of the assault on Cuidad Rodrigo during the……続きを見る

A lively and informative short volume that shows that France is not a faded glory but rather a place that has defined and shaped the key issues of our contemporary world, such as democracy and unive……続きを見る

Robert Blakeney was by modern standards a callow youth at the age of fifteen, in the standards of the time in which he lived he was a gentleman and a soldier. Blakeney was commissioned as a subalter……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

When Thomas Hamilton set out to write this detailed history of the Peninsular campaigns, the great struggle for Portugal and Spain was still fresh in the minds of his intended audience. It was also ……続きを見る

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This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS MARIE MADELEINE DE BRINVILLIERSー I. Her Life, II. Her Trial, III. Her Death, THE POISON DRAMA AT TH……続きを見る

This edition features  • illustrations  • a linked Table of Contents   CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION NOTE VOLUME I. ー 1769-1800 VOLUME II. ー 1800-1805 VOLUME III. ー 1805-1814 VOLUM……続きを見る

The Bastille is most known for being destroyed - it has endured as a symbol of absolute power that fell to popular anger. But few people, even in France, know anything about the actual prison, nota……続きを見る

Mary Magdalene - Princess of the Dutch House of Orange. Did Mary Magdalene travel to Provence, in France? Ralph Ellis follows the trail of mythology and reveals compelling circumstantial evidence th……続きを見る

Is bacon fat meat? Chicken? Cheese? Eggs? All of these have been considered, at different times, meat or meatless foods by the Catholic Church. The eighteenth century historian Le Grand d'Aussy inc……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS CHAPTER I FRANCE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. 1412-1423. CHAPTER II DOMREMY AND VAUCOULEURS. 1424-1429. CHAPTER III BEFORE THE KING. FEB.-APRIL……続きを見る

Selon Napoléon, la première qualité d'un général est de savoir émouvoir son armée. Il s'y employa mieux que quiconque et fit la démonstration de son génie également en matière de rhétorique. Convain……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER 1. FLINDERS AND THE INVESTIGATOR. CHAPTER 2. THE AFFAIR OF ENCOUNTER BAY. CHAPTER 3. PORT PHILLIP. CHAPTER 4. TERRE NAPOLEON AND ……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

General De Brack served Napoleon and France for many years as a light cavalryman during the wars that raged for over a decade. He served under some of the most able and dashing of officers, includin……続きを見る

This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant res……続きを見る

TABLE DES MATIÈRES Introduction Historique I.ーRadioactivité de l'uranium et du thorium. Minéraux radioactifs. Rayons de Becquerel Mesure de l'intensité du rayonnement Radioactivité des composés d'u……続きを見る

The Road from the Past is a unique new way of looking at France, looking at history, and looking at travel. In it, Ina Caro takes us on an unforgettable tour of France, traveling north through its b……続きを見る

Amongst the heroic figures of the Royal Navy of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars; Admiral Nelson stands out from a number of great men. Without Lord St. Vincent, it is difficult to imagine how ……続きを見る

For those who hung around the streets, parks and bridges of Paris in the late 60's, the street artist, Maurice Utrillo, was an inspiration. In Utrillo's Children the author shares his memories of a ……続きを見る

During the Peninsular War, the services of the 95th Rifles led to fame and frequent mentions in despatches as their united battalions in the Light Division fought with distinction. No less of a band……続きを見る

When Thomas Hamilton set out to write this detailed history of the Peninsular campaigns, the great struggle for Portugal and Spain was still fresh in the minds of his intended audience. It was also ……続きを見る

In When the French Tried to Be British, J.A.W. Gunn studies the French effort during 1814 to 1848 to adopt the set of common understandings that lent a comparative stability to British government. T……続きを見る

Partidário da igualdade política, defensor da soberania como base necessária à constituição de um sistema representativo, Saint-Just escreveu sobre esses temas no calor dos acontecimentos revolucion……続きを見る

In this haunting chronicle of betrayal and abandonment, ostracism and exile, racism and humiliation, Vincent Crapanzano examines the story of the Harkis, the quarter of a million Algerian auxiliary ……続きを見る

When Admiral Mahan, passed away in 1914, his ideas and thoughts lived on in his writings, which spanned the naval strategy of his own times and the lessons learnt from history. They are still read a……続きを見る

A sourcebook of homicide, suicide, rape and prostitution cases from 18th century France, most from previously untranslated material. Sources include periodicals, Bastille records, police reports and……続きを見る