MB - France 1

La grande et la petite histoire de la table française depuis le Moyen Age jusqu'aux années 1980. Ou comment la cuisine est devenue gastronomie en France. Des premiers recueils de recettes du Moyen Â……続きを見る

Mary Croom Brown´s "Mary Tudor, Queen of France" narrates the fascinating story of Mary Tudor, the third daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York and the younger sister of King Henry V……続きを見る

That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and Fran……続きを見る

Earl St. Vincent was not only an excellent administrator, a fine sailor and undaunted defender of the Royal Navy. He was also eclipsed in the tomes of history by his more famous protégé, Lord Nelson……続きを見る

Colonel Jean Colin was the head of the historical section of the French General Staff for many years. He authored a number of books on the military history of the French Revolution, wars of Napoleon……続きを見る

They were the children of France's most celebrated men of nineteenth-century letters and science, the celebrity heirs and heiresses of their day. Their lives were the subject of scandal, gossip, and……続きを見る

A ‘sociological’ study of ‘The May Events’ of France 1968 by French Council Communist Richard Gombin, a libertarian analysis (focusing primarily on events between May 3 and 13 June) that examines th……続きを見る

“A reporter's eye on great historical events “Readers may be of the initial opinion that the view of an officer of the Commissariat Department would be necessarily less dynamic than that of a regime……続きを見る

Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begin……続きを見る

Extrait : "La première réunion dont nous occuperons est celle qui avait lieu toutes les semaines chez Valentin Conrart, rue Saint-Martin, au cœur de Paris. Elle se composait de Godeau, Gombauld, Cha……続きを見る

Extrait : "Le dix-huitième siècle a compté, comme le dix-septième, un grand nombre de cercles littéraires, offrant la même diversité d'origine, les mêmes contrastes de ton. Nous rencontrerons, au co……続きを見る

Spectacle is not often considered to be a significant part of the style of ‘classical’ cinema. Indeed, some of the most influential accounts of cinematic classicism define it virtually by the suppos……続きを見る

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos Lt.-Gen. Wilhelm Balck was a Prussian General, whose service during the First World War with the 51st Di……続きを見る

“Young Elizabeth Balcombe, or Betsy to friends and family, found life on the remote island of St Helena intolerably dull. Most fourteen-year-olds would. Her father had been posted to that unforgivin……続きを見る

Professor Emeritus Robert S. Quimby examines the strategic and tactical revolution that swept through the French military hierarchy in the Eighteenth Century and forged the superb instrument that be……続きを見る

This memoirs of Antoine de Bourrienne are a work which, for deep interest, excitement, and amusement, can scarcely be paralleled by any of the numerous and excellent memoirs for which the ……続きを見る

This book examines the cosmopolitanism and anticolonialism that black intellectuals, such as the African American W.E.B. Du Bois, the Caribbeans Marcus Garvey and George Padmore, and the Francophone……続きを見る

M. Schébéko, qui vit aujourd’hui retiré, a écrit ses souvenirs. Pendant dix-huit mois, il a été à Vienne l’Ambassadeur de Russie près la Cour d’Autriche, il l’était en 1914. Ses mémoires sont précie……続きを見る

Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe was born in 1802 as the second child of William and Jane Balcombe, née Cranston. Her father was Superintendent of Public Sales for the East India Company. Balcombe and her s……続きを見る

An intellectually stimulating collection of other people's opinions, comments, and critiques of Paris. Chamberlin describes these snippets as “citations which illuminated one or another aspect of Pa……続きを見る

Dans les années 1950 et 1960, les dirigeants français ont mené au Cameroun une guerre secrète. Pour garder la mainmise sur ce pays clé de son empire, la France a inventé une politique africaine néoc……続きを見る

Giambattista Vico ou Giovan Battista Vico, né le 23 juin 1668 à Naples où il est mort le 23 janvier 1744, est un philosophe de la politique, un rhétoricien, un historien et un juriste italien, qui é……続きを見る

There is no doubt that Napoleon Bonaparte has attracted legions of biographers over the last two centuries, documenting his endlessly fascinating life, associated with some of the most important and……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille de Sedan en moins d’une heure ! Le 1er septembre 1870 se joue l’avenir du Second Empire. Les forces prussiennes désireuses d’obtenir l’unifi……続きを見る

Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte de France (1778-1851), fille de Louis XVI et de Marie-Antoinette, est successivement surnommée Madame Royale, l’Orpheline du Temple, puis Duchesse d’Angoulême après son maria……続きを見る

In Souls under Siege**, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the viol……続きを見る

Esta obra aborda como a ascensão de partidos de extrema direita na Europa voltou a ganhar força no continente, colocando-a em um patamar de influência política não vista no continente desde o fim da……続きを見る

Marguerite d’Angoulême, reine de Navarre, surnommée la Perle des Valois, est la sœur de François Ier. Plus qu’une sœur, elle fut l’amie, la confidente, la conseillère. Elle adoucit sa nature fougueu……続きを見る

Extrait : "Dans un ouvrage dont l'éloge n'est plus à faire, M. Camille Rousset a réduit à leur juste valeur les assertions de certains écrivains sur les événements militaires de 1792[...]. Désireux ……続きを見る

Extrait : "Au commencement du XIXe siècle vivait à Boulogne-sur-Mer, une famille bourgeoise jouissant d'une certaine aisance et parfaitement apparentée, du nom de Paillet-Dupont, en ménage depuis le……続きを見る