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The Man Behind the Iron Mask by John Noone
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:John Noone [Noone, John]

NOTES 1. Dauger or Danger: traditionally the name has been read as Dauger and that is why, for the sake of convenience, I use that reading here. 2. Blainvilliers: Zachèe ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
Napoleon A Life by Andrew Roberts
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Andrew Roberts [Andrew Roberts]

Once Junot had occupied Lisbon he formally deposed the absent Braganza dynasty and confiscated their property, imposed a ‘contribution’ of 100 million francs and promulgated a constitution which included religious ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc by Goldstone Nancy
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-29 | Author:Goldstone, Nancy [Goldstone, Nancy]

THE FIASCO AT PARIS—and it was a fiasco; only a disciplined, well-planned, sustained siege of the type Charles had no intention of engaging in could have taken the city—betrayed the ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
Henri II: His Court and Times by H Noel Williams
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-22 | Author:H Noel Williams

The King inquired who had been the intermediary between his brother and Philip. "Madame d'Étampes and the Comtesse Arenberg,"04 replied Saint-André, "who, under the pretext of the marriage, maintained a ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
Paris at the End of the World by John Baxter
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:John Baxter

Uniform chic Meanwhile, in Paris, shrewd designers suggested to their all-too-suggestible clients that it was their duty to dress well, so long as their clothes included some acknowledgment of the ...
( Category: General October 13,2015 )
When the King Took Flight by Timothy Tackett
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Timothy Tackett [Tackett, Timothy]

The Fate of the Monarchy The great debate in the Assembly itself was finally launched on July 13 with the formal report of the "Seven Committees," commissioned to draw up ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Eric Hazan

Establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal and the Committee of Public Safety; representatives ‘on mission’ to the front The Convention did not confine itself to reorganizing the army. During the critical ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
That Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present by Isabelle Tombs & Robert Tombs
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Isabelle Tombs & Robert Tombs [Tombs, Isabelle]

PILGRIMS OF PLEASURE: THE PRINCE OF WALES AND OSCAR WILDE I want to make my life itself a work of art. I know the price of a fine verse, but ...
( Category: Great Britain October 13,2015 )
The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-11-28 | Author:William Doyle

It was fortunate for them that their opponents were so divided and uncoordinated, because even in Paris itself the weeks after the purge of 2 June were chaotic. Few deputies ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
Catherine de Medici by Frieda Leonie
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-08 | Author:Frieda, Leonie [Frieda, Leonie]

ELEVEN MARGOT’S MARRIAGE IS ARRANGED I would prefer to see him become a Huguenot than to see him endanger his life in this way 1570–72 Once the Treaty of Saint-Germain ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

Withdrawn from the sale, by Marigny, was Représentations de M. le Lt Général de Police de Paris sur les Courtisanes à la Mode et les Demoiselles de Bon Ton, par ...
( Category: France October 13,2015 )
The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave Le Bon
epub |eng | 1996-02-01 | Author:Gustave Le Bon [Bon, Gustave Le]

3. The Constituent Assembly. The power of a political assembly resides, above all, in the weakness of its adversaries. Astonished by the slight resistance encountered, and carried away by the ...
( Category: General October 12,2015 )
The Cost of Courage by Charles Kaiser
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Charles Kaiser [Kaiser, Charles]

ABLE Company riding the tide in seven Higgins boats is still five thousand yards from the beach when first taken under artillery fire. The shells fall short. At one thousand ...
( Category: Holocaust October 11,2015 )
THE GERMANS IN NORMANDY by Hargreaves Richard
epub |eng | 2006-11-06 | Author:Hargreaves, Richard [Hargreaves, Richard]

The ordinary German was also impressed, as the Sicherheitsdienst monitors reported from the city of Schwerin: The destruction cannot be too great; hatred for England is finally finding an outlet ...
( Category: France October 9,2015 )
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Hazareesingh Sudhir
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Hazareesingh, Sudhir [Hazareesingh, Sudhir]

Letters from America A possibility of salvation for the structuralist project opened up from without. From the late 1960s there was an increasing dissemination of the works of contemporary French ...
( Category: History & Theory October 9,2015 )

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