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The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

12. THE FACULTY Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes et non de leurs maladies. MOLIÈRE Illness and death were very dreadful at Versailles. As soon as the breath ...
( Category: France June 1,2015 )
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Graham Robb [Robb, Graham]

It was like a vision: She was sitting in the middle of the bench, all on her own . . . A long shawl with purple stripes was placed behind ...
( Category: Historic June 1,2015 )
oxford history of the french revolution by doyle
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:doyle

ment of those named in the petition, the crowds were melting away, and the crisis seemed to have passed. All the insurrectionaries achieved was the final abandonment of the Commission ...
( Category: France June 1,2015 )
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble
epub |eng | 2015-05-20 | Author:Antony Beevor [Beevor, Antony]

14 Thursday 21 December By the morning of 21 December, the Kampfgruppe Peiper was in a desperate situation, ‘pocketed without adequate supplies’, as its leader put it. He received a ...
( Category: World War II May 30,2015 )
A Cool and Lonely Courage by Susan Ottaway
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Susan Ottaway

CHAPTER 15 Didi Vanishes The day after Jacqueline had returned to England the Stationer circuit was sent a new wireless operator. René Mathieu (Aimé) arrived to take over from Maingard ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
In Defence of the Terror by Sophie Wahnich
epub |eng | 2012-07-11 | Author:Sophie Wahnich [Wahnich, Sophie]

* * * 3 THE TERROR AS A LONG CYCLE OF VENGEANCE: TOWARDS A REINTERPRETATION OF THE LAWS OF TERROR * * * The establishment of the revolutionary tribunal on ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
Admiral Collingwood by Max Adams
epub |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Max Adams [Adams, Max]

9 Giddy with the multiplicities 1806–1808 Collingwood’s head was spinning too, and with good reason. In October 1805 he had been second-in-command to Nelson at a victory which was (and ...
( Category: France May 27,2015 )
The Sun Sword by Michelle West
epub |eng | 2004-01-06 | Author:Michelle West [Michelle West]

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE TELAKAR'S dance was brief and graceful; Nugratz chose power A to make his statement. The winds howled beside him, like the face of a jagged cliff, and he ...
( Category: Epic May 26,2015 )
Our Darkest Day by Patrick Lindsay
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-24 | Author:Patrick Lindsay

We marched along the road in single file keeping to the right under cover of the hedge as much as possible – and about five minute intervals between platoons, till ...
( Category: France May 25,2015 )
Joan of Arc : A History (9780062384416) by Castor Helen
epub |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Castor, Helen

10 Fear of the fire Joan was ill. She had been a prisoner for ten months. For the last two she had been under interrogation, first in the intimidating public ...
( Category: Women May 25,2015 )
Nancy Mitford by Nancy Mitford
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Nancy Mitford

9 NANCY PAID ANNUAL visits to her parents who had chosen to live apart in their old age—Lord Redesdale in a cottage at Otterburn, Northumberland, and Lady Redesdale at lonely ...
( Category: France April 5,2015 )
Eiffel's Tower by Jill Jonnes
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jill Jonnes

By July 16, the sunny summer days had been blown away by heavy winds, followed by day after day of cold, rainy weather. This suited the mood of Minister Antonin ...
( Category: France April 5,2015 )
Isabella, Queen Without a Conscience by Bard Rachel
azw3 |eng | 2014-08-24 | Author:Bard, Rachel [Bard, Rachel]

Chapter 37 Hugh le Brun 1206 Isabella sent me a message when I was imprisoned at Caen Castle. It came shortly after William des Roches had arranged for me to ...
( Category: Historical March 22,2015 )
Letters From Prison by Marquis de Sade
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Marquis de Sade [de Sade, Marquis]

1. By point of departure Sade, always on the lookout for signals, or seeing them when they do not exist, is asking the marquise for the key to the code, ...
( Category: France March 21,2015 )
A Foreign Field by Ben Macintyre
epub |eng | 2001-03-20 | Author:Ben Macintyre [MacIntyre, Ben]

There were only a few uneasy and unkempt civilians to be seen. Everywhere there were soldiers in worn and torn coats, with tanned faces and thick beards, who went to ...
( Category: World War I March 21,2015 )

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