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The Pyrenees in the Modern Era

Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012

by Emeritus Professor Martyn Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018

This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The...
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by Geoffrey Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2003

Was Napoleon the 'heir' of the French Revolution, the great consolidator of its reforms, or did he distort and even abandon its principles? What were the aims and effects of Napoleonic rule in France and in conquered Europe more widely? This second edition of The Napoleonic Empire offers a...
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by Field Marshal Viscount Garnet Wolseley
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014

The Napoleon in power in later years may have lacked the absolute genius and resolution that his earlier campaigns displayed; however, he was more than a match for his enemies on more than one occasion. Field-Marshal Wolseley’s short biography of Wellington begins in 1812, following the travails...
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by Major-General F. C. Beatson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

IN this book an attempt is made to show how the greatest of modern British Generals planned and carried out the first stages in the execution of the task set him by his Government, namely, to make a further advance into French territory, and thereby render efficient co-operation to the armies of the...
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History of the War in the Peninsula, under Napoleon - Vol. I

to which is prefixed a view of the political and military state of the four belligerent powers

by Général de Division Comte Maximilien Foy
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013

General Maximilien Foy was a renowned and experienced French general with a long and distinguished career. An artilleryman like his master Napoleon, he fulfilled his duty to France despite disagreeing with Napoleon, and fought across Europe from Switzerland, Germany, Portugal and Spain. He spent a...
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Bayonne and Toulouse 1813–14

Wellington invades France

by Colonel Nick Lipscombe
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014

The news of Wellington's momentous victory at Vitoria on 21 June 1813 reached London in early July. Celebration spawned an expectation of a rapid conclusion to events in the Peninsula. His Majesty's Government gave authority for Wellington to invade France and made noises and plans for the redeployment...
Cover of French Battleships 1914–45
by Ryan K. Noppen
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019

On September 1, 1910, France became the last great naval power to lay down a dreadnought battleship, the Courbet. The ensuing Courbet and Bretagne-class dreadnoughts had a relatively quiet World War I, spending most of it at anchor off the entrance to the Adriatic, keeping watch over the Austro-Hungarian...
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by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
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.
Cover of De Gaulle, un destin face à l'Histoire
by Stephane Renault, Benjamin Stora, Max Gallo
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2012

Un portrait en creux de l'action et de la personnalité du Français le plus connu dans le monde. Fondateur et président de la Ve République de 1958 à 1969, Charles de Gaulle fait plus que jamais figure de référence incontournable dans les discours politiques. Sous sa présidence, c'est...
Cover of Trois siècles d'histoire de France
by G. LENOTRE
Language: French
Release Date: June 9, 2016

Les petites histoires qui font la grande d'Henri IV à Napoléon III. Nul mieux que Théodore Gosselin – passé à la postérité sous le nom de G. Lenotre – n'a su raconter des histoires d'une plume journalistique, nerveuse, littéraire, tout en puisant des inédits souvent majeurs dans les archives...
Cover of Henri IV en Gascogne (1553-1589)
by Charles De Batz De Trenqueléon
Language: French
Release Date: February 16, 2014

« ...Quelque digne de l’admiration universelle que soit l’œuvre de Henri IV depuis 1589 jusqu’à sa mort, il n’en est presque rien de grand, presque rien d’heureux pour la France, que le roi de Navarre n’eût déjà manifestement voulu, projeté et entrepris. Avant de succéder à Henri...
Cover of Talleyrand, les derniers secrets

Talleyrand, les derniers secrets

Histoire d'un homme

by Alain Leclercq, Daniel-Charles Luytens
Language: French
Release Date: December 17, 2018

Talleyrand, homme de pouvoir Français, fascine toujours. Talleyrand, surnommé « le diable boiteux » en raison de son pied bot, n’a laissé aucun de ses contemporains indifférent. Qu’on l’admire, qu’on le craigne ou qu’on le déteste, il a été perçu tantôt comme un pervers...
Cover of Les Chevaliers d'Héliopolis - Tome 01

Les Chevaliers d'Héliopolis - Tome 01

Nigredo, l'oeuvre au noir

by Jérémy, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Language: French
Release Date: May 17, 2017

Il est le détenteur d’un savoir. L’héritier d’un pouvoir. Fin du XVIIIe siècle. Dans un monastère au Nord de l’Espagne se dissimule le temple sacré des Chevaliers d’Héliopolis : une assemblée d’alchimistes immortels et coupés du monde. Alors que le disciple Dix-sept s’apprête...
Cover of Les Cathédrales de France
by Auguste Rodin
Language: French
Release Date: July 30, 2014

Extrait : Comment l'art du moyen âge a-t-il pu tomber dans l'oubli, et, pis encore, dans le mépris ? Cette disgrâce a naturellement procédé d'une réaction symétrique et contraire à la lente élaboration qui, du passé obscur, avait abouti aux magnificences du XIIIe siècle français et chrétien....
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