Jean Jules Jusserand: 6 books

4 works of Jean Jules Jusserand French author and diplomat (1855-1932) This ebook presents a collection of 4 works of Jean Jules Jusserand. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: A Literary History of the English People Our First Alliance The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare With Americans of Past and Present Days

Jean Jules Jusserand (1855 1932) was a French author and ambassador to the United States. In 1917, Jusserand won the first Pulitzer Prize in History for With Americans of Past and Present Days. Jusserands classic discusses American-French relations through history, including the Comte de Rochambeau...

The Romance of a King’s Life is a compelling portrait of James I, King of Scots, who reigned from 1406 to 1437. At age twelve, James was held captive for eighteen years by the English. He eventually returned to Scotland, where he received a mixed reception. All the facets of a long-ago age are explored in this gripping story.

The people that now occupies England was formed, like the French people, by the fusion of several superimposed races. In both countries the same races met and mingled at about the same period, but in different proportions and under dissimilar social conditions. Hence the striking resemblances and...

The American war had been for five years in progress; for two years a treaty of alliance, having as sole object "to maintain effectually the liberty, sovereignty, and independence, absolute and unlimited, of the United States," bound us French to the "insurgents"; successes and...

The maintenance of roads and bridges in England was in the fourteenth century one of those charges which weighed, like military service, on the whole of the nation. All landed proprietors were obliged, in theory, to watch over the good condition of the highways; their tenants had to execute the repairs...