Home > History > Europe > France
France
Voices of the Paris Commune by Abidor Mitchell
epub |eng | 2015-10-10 | Author:Abidor, Mitchell [Abidor, Mitchell]

JEAN GRAVE7 Editor of Les Temps Nouveaux, who took no part in the Commune but whose opinion seemed of interest to us, the opinion of a revolutionary of today on ...
( Category: European December 14,2015 )
The French Way by Kuisel Richard F
epub |eng | | Author:Kuisel, Richard F.

Trade Warriors Trade, which in theory and practice bridged the Atlantic, also contributed, like security, to rancor in the United States and France. Trouble peaked in the early 1990s over ...
( Category: European December 11,2015 )
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Sarah Vowell [Vowell, Sarah]

Over a decade after the Treaty of Alliance was signed, in the early days of the French Revolution, a forlorn Louis XVI would answer a letter from his Indian ally ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding November 23,2015 )
Jean-dominique Bauby
mobi |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Diving Bell;the Butterfly

Through a Glass, Darkly Hunched in my wheelchair, I watch my children surreptitiously as their mother pushes me down the hospital corridor. While I have become something of a zombie ...
( Category: Strokes November 2,2015 )
Michael Wittmann [02] Michael Wittmann and the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in World War II by Patrick Agte
epub |eng | 2006-06-15 | Author:Patrick Agte [Agte, Patrick]

Following the conclusion of the battle of Villers-Bocage several of the 1st Company’s Schwimmwagen drove into the town to recover those killed on 13 June 1944. On their left is ...
( Category: World War II October 29,2015 )
Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944 by Mitchell Allan
epub |eng | 2015-10-21 | Author:Mitchell, Allan [Mitchell, Allan]

Iron, ore, scrap metal 8,000,000 tons Other metals and ores Copper 240,580 tons Aluminum 247,678 tons Bauxite 679,080 tons Machines Locomotives 283 units Freight cars 834 units Automobiles 424 units ...
( Category: World War II October 22,2015 )
Traditional Enemies: Britain's War With Vichy France 1940-42 by John D Grainger
epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:John D Grainger

Chapter 9 Islands and Raids In the year since the Franco-German armistice the undeclared war between the former allies Britain and France had ranged over Africa, the Middle East, and ...
( Category: Great Britain October 19,2015 )
Bourgeois Frontier by Jay Gitlin
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-12 | Author:Jay Gitlin

Mrs. Ramsay Crooks. The marriage of Marianne Pelagie “Emilie” Pratte (1806-1863), daughter of Bernard Pratte and Emilie Labbadie, to Ramsay Crooks, right-hand man of John Jacob Astor, in 1825 facilitated ...
( Category: State & Local October 13,2015 )
A History of France from the Earliest Times to the Treaty of Versailles by Davis William Stearns
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Davis, William Stearns [Davis, William Stearns]

CHAPTER XVI. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, AS MASTER OF EUROPE THIS volume is a history of France. It is not a biography of Napoleon. It is not a history of the wars ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
Marie Antoinette: An Intimate History by Clegg Melanie
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-15 | Author:Clegg, Melanie [Clegg, Melanie]

‘Madame, We are filled with happiness and venture to think that the last arrangements proposed to us, which we have performed with zeal and respect, are a further proof of ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon by Colin Jones
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Colin Jones

C) PATRIOTISM À L’AMÉRICAINE Despite the failure of the Turgot experiment, the young king still retained goodwill in the country at large – indeed, so unpopular had the Controller-General become ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
Modern France: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Schwartz Vanessa R
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-11 | Author:Schwartz, Vanessa R. [Schwartz, Vanessa R.]

Novel technologies of representation Photography, which made a fledgling appearance in the late 1820s in the experiments of inventor Nicéphore Niépce, became firmly entrenched as a process by Louis Daguerre ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
The French Revolution and Napoleon by Hazen Charles
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-12 | Author:Hazen, Charles [Hazen, Charles]

CHAPTER VI THE DIRECTORY THE Directory lasted from October 27, 1795, to November 19, 1799. It took its name from the form of the executive branch of the Republic, as ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ken Alder

All that remained was to boil down those concatenated results into a single number: the meter. For the next few weeks, each commissioner calculated independently, using his own preferred method. ...
( Category: Geography October 13,2015 )
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-30 | Author:Ruth Scurr [Scurr, Ruth]

It was Danton who gave Paris the signal. First he went home to Arcis and settled money on his seventy-year-old mother in case he was killed. Then he came back ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )

First Prev [6] [7] [8] [9] 10 [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] Next Last