France category: 4880 books
The Prodigious Marshal: Being the Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Maurice De Saxe, Marshal of France
Son of the King of Poland, Conqueror of the English, Pretender to the Dukedom of Kurland, and Universal Lover
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Few military leaders have been as successful or as flamboyant as Maurice Marshal de Saxe, who reigned supreme in the tangled wars that raged across Europe during the early-Eighteenth Century. In this pithy biography, Edmund d’Auvergne traces the ascent of the future marshal from his lowly roots...
THE DA VINCI CON
The Code War or Jiggery-Pokery in Rennes Le Château
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Since the birth of speculative freemasonry in the early 17th century, large numbers of intelligent and otherwise well-informed, sane and sensible people have believed that much of what was happening around them only occurred because it was set in motion by secret societies, the motors of history....
by General William Francis Patrick Napier K.C.B.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
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 most remembered for. A masteful, epic account of the Spanish Ulcer that drained Napoleon's resources and...
by Major-General Finlay Cochrane Beatson C.B.
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
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 troops were significant physical barriers to progress toward the final resolution of the conflict in the...
by General William Francis Patrick Napier K.C.B.
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
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 of the Light Division, such as the epic march to Talavera, the battles of Fuentes d’Oñoro,...
Time in Tavel
2nd edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Brewster Chamberlin readily admits one of the great pieces of buona Fortuna in his life was the 14 months he spent with Lynn-Marie Smith in a small village in the South of France just northwest of the old walled city of Avignon. This sprightly memoir is the story of those deeply enriching and adventurous...
Artisanal Enlightenment
Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment
What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound...
Marengo
The Victory That Placed the Crown of France on Napoleon's Head
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
On 14 June 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte fought his first battle as French head of state at Marengo in northern Italy. Unexpectedly attacked, Napoleon’s army fought one of the most intense battles of the French Revolutionary Wars. Forced to retreat, and threatened with encirclement, Napoleon saved his...
by Edward Baines
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Pyrrhus Press specializes in bringing books long out of date back to life, allowing today’s readers access to yesterday’s treasures.
As one of the seminal social revolutions in human history, the French Revolution holds a unique legacy, especially in the West. The early years of the Revolution...
by Alec Hargreaves
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1995
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Carine Lounissi
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book explores Thomas Paine's French decade, from the publication of the first part of Rights of Man in the spring of 1791 to his return trip to the United States in the fall of 1802. It examines Paine's multifarious activities during this period as a thinker, writer, member of the French Convention,...
Conscience and Conversion
Religious Liberty in Post-Revolutionary France
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at several individuals in Restoration France whose high-profile conversions fascinated their contemporaries. Exploring their reasons and the repercussions they faced, Kselman demonstrates how this expanded sense of liberty informs our secular age.
Terror and terroir
The winegrowers of the Languedoc and modern France
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This book traces the history of post-war France by tracking the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a militant collective of winegrowers who have used protest and violence to push back against attempts to modernise the French economy and state and the wider impacts of globalisation.