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by Félix de France d’Hézecques
Language: French
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Souvenirs d’un page de la cour de Louis XVI sont les mémoires de Charles-Alexandre-François-Félix, comte de France d'Hézecques, baron de Mailly (1774 - 1835).
Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte...
by Pierre de Vaissière
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Dans cette biographie d’Henri IV, Pierre de Vaissière tente de faire davantage revivre l’homme que le roi. Du ventre de sa mère, Jeanne d’Albret, à son assassinat par Ravaillac, ce sont les 56 ans d’une vie riche en évènements qui nous sont exposés...
by Eric Le Nabour
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Le 3 mai 1814, Louis XVIII monte sur le trône de France, mettant fin à vingt-cinq ans de turbulences politiques. Pendant seize ans — exception faite de l'épisode des Cent-Jours qui sonne le glas de l'Empire —, la première puis la seconde Restauration vont tenter de réorganiser...
Henri IV
Le roi de la tolérance et de l'édit de Nantes
Language: French
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le règne d'Henri IV en moins d'une heure !
S'il est bien un roi de France qui a marqué l'Histoire, c'est bien Henri IV. Prince protestant et roi de Navarre, il devient roi de France en 1589 contre la volonté du clan catholique. Par une politique...
Histoire des salons de Paris
Tableaux et portraits du grand monde sous Louis XVI, le Directoire, le Consulat et l'Empire, la Restauration et le règne de Louis-Philippe Ier ( Edition intégrale - 6 volumes )
Language: French
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Histoire des salons de Paris (Tome 6/6) -Tableaux et portraits du grand monde sous Louis XVI, Le Directoire, le Consulat et l'Empire, la Restauration et le règne de Louis-Philippe Ier by duchesse d' Abrantès.
C'est une matière grave à traiter dans les annales d'un pays comme la France,...
by Edmund Burke
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1982
Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case...
by Edmund Burke
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. In the twentieth century, it much influenced conservative and classical liberal intellectuals, who recast Burke's Whig arguments as a critique of Communism and Socialist revolutionary programs.
Life on a Mediaeval Barony
A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
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Chapter I: The Fief of St. Aliquis: Its History and Denizens.
In the duchy of Quelqueparte there lay, in the later days of the great King Philip Augustus, the barony of St. Aliquis. Perhaps you may have trouble in finding any such places upon the...
Provence and the Cote d'Azur
Discover the Spirit of the South of France
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Take a journey through the dreamiest regions of France: the enchanting villages of Provence and the magnificent coastline of the Côte d'Azur. From the author of Paris, this gorgeous lifestyle guide steers readers away from crowded tourist destinations to reveal hidden gems at every turn: overflowing...
After the Roundup
Escape and Survival in Hitler’s France
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up eleven-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were transported by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande...
Village of Secrets
Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the absorbing story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II—told in full for the first time.
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains...
by Francis Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
In the colonization of North America, Great Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden each sought a share. By the eighteenth century, only Great Britain and France remained as rivals for the heart of the continent. Three times, beginning in 1690, warfare arose between New France and New...
by Laura Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In My Grape Escape, twenty-six-year-old Laura steps off the path to a prestigious legal career in London and into a Revolutionary-era ruin in the Burgundian town of Beaune with her new husband, Franck. Is this split-second, life-altering decision profoundly wise or utterly insane?
Laura's idealistic...
by Laura Bradbury
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
At the age of seventeen in a last-minute twist of fate, Laura Bradbury is sent to Burgundy, France, for a year’s exchange. She arrives knowing only a smattering of French and with no idea what to expect in her first foray out of North America. With a head full of dreams and a powerful desire to...