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by Milburg Francisco Mansfield, Blanche McManus
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. There are two ways of writing a book of travel: to recount the journey itself or the results of it. This is also the case with regard to any work which attempts to purvey topographical or historical information...
HISTOIRE de la REVOLUTION FRANCAISE
TOME 2 : 6 octobre 1789 - juillet 1791
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Considéré comme étant l'un des grands historiens du XIXe siècle bien qu'aujourd'hui controversé, Jules MICHELET (1798-1874), pour comprendre la formation de la monarchie a voulu en étudier la ruine en écrivant Histoire de la Révolution Française.
Doué d’un immense...
La Terreur, le tournant de la Révolution
Une période sombre de l’histoire française
Language: French
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la Terreur en moins d’une heure ! 1792. Trois ans après la prise de la Bastille, la France est à un tournant critique de son histoire. Alors que la Première République vient d’être proclamée, des dissensions se font jour entre l’Assemblée...
The Old Regime Police Blotter I
Bloodshed, Sex & Violence in Pre-Revolutionary France
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
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 contemporary true crime accounts. Within each subject, material - most of it from the period - is...
Disorderly Families
Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of arrest (lettres de cachet) from France’s Ancien Régime were often associated with excessive...
by COLLECTIF
Language: French
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: January 23, 2014
La fin des rois et des empereurs de France et des Français racontée par les meilleurs historiens.
Comment sont morts les principaux souverains qui ont fait la France de Charlemagne à Napoléon III ?
Les meilleurs historiens actuels répondent pour la première fois à cette question dans...
by General William Francis Patrick Napier K.C.B.
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 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,...
Maximilian and Carlota
Europe's Last Empire in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
In this new telling of Mexico’s Second Empire and Louis Napoléon’s installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life.From 1861 to...
Journal Of An Officer In The Commissariat Department Of The Army
Comprising A Narrative Of The Campaigns Under The Duke Of Wellington, In Portugal, Spain, France, And The Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“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 regimental officer. In fact, Daniel's position as a non-combatant has proved to be the exact opposite...
by J Abbot, J Draper
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
These two pieces, published in 1868, shortly after the execution of Maximilian are good examples of the attitudes of Americans during the period shortly after the American Civil War. The French Expedition to Mexico gives a brief account of the events leading to the crowning of Maximilian, and Maximilian gives a brief biography of the emperor and his short reign.
From Valmy To Waterloo—Extracts From The Diary Of Capt. Charles François
A Soldier Of The Revolution And The Empire.
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
The cannonade of Valmy (1792) ranks as one of the most significant battles of all time for its strategic results: the defeat of the Prussian invasion heralded the beginning of the French Republic. At the field of Waterloo in 1815, no less a battle ended once and for all the ambitions of Napoleon to...
The Escape Line
How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Of all the resistance organizations that operated during the war, about which much has been written, one stands out for its transnational character, the diversity of the tasks its members took on, and the fact that, unlike many of the known evasion lines, it was not directed by Allied officers, but...
Le Désastre de 1940
De l'Union sacrée à Vichy
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Un essai très intéressant sur une période noire de l'Histoire française.La Troisième République, qui avait su s’imposer et gagner la Grande Guerre, a subi dès 1919 un lent et inéluctable déclin, qui l’a conduite à son effondrement en 1940.Quel contraste saisissant entre la ferveur, la capacité...
Chasing Lance
The 2005 Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's Ride of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A unique combination of travelogue, humor, and insider cycling critique, "Chasing Lance" brings into focus the entire Tour de France experience. 8-page photo insert. 2 maps.