France
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]

XII. WORDSWORTH: CLIMAX, 1804–14 After some minor wanderings, the Wordsworth ménage moved (1808) from Dove Cottage to a larger house at nearby Allan Bank. There the poet blossomed out as ...
( Category: France November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will & Durant, Ariel [Durant, Ariel]

IV. AUSTRIA AND THE TURKS Vienna is so beautiful today that we find it hard to picture it after the Thirty Years’ War. Austria had not suffered so severely as ...
( Category: France November 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-06-30 | Author:Yapp, Nick & Syrett, Michel [Yapp, Nick]

Other holidays The French have a generous helping of days off. With luck, these fall on Tuesdays or Thursdays, which enables the French to take Monday or Friday off as ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
mobi |fr | 2009-09-23 | Author:ROMAIN ROLLAND

* Tandis qu’il se débattait contre les fantômes de la fièvre et contre l’étouffement qui gagnait sa poitrine, il eut vaguement conscience qu’on ouvrait la porte de sa chambre, et ...
( Category: French November 11,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marilyn Yalom

CHAPTER NINE Romantic Love Deflated Madame Bovary THE MATERIAL OF HER RIDING HABIT CAUGHT ON HIS VELVET COAT. SHE TIPPED BACK HER HEAD, HER WHITE THROAT SWELLED WITH A SIGH; ...
( Category: Love & Romance November 10,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1933-11-06 | Author:Andrew Dickson White [Andrew Dickson White]

III. THE first new expedient of the Directory was to secure a forced loan of six hundred million francs from the wealthier classes; but this was found fruitless. Ominous it ...
( Category: France November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Fredrik Logevall [Logevall, Fredrik]

VI AT DIEN BIEN PHU ON JANUARY 25, EVERYONE IN THE ENTRENCHED camp waited with nervous anxiety. And waited. By nightfall, no attack had come. A Dakota circled above the ...
( Category: European November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-05 | Author:Beevor, Antony [Beevor, Antony]

The Guards Armoured Division, originally delayed by the great storm, was by now ready to take part. Its officers were urged to visit the different fronts in Jeeps to pick ...
( Category: World War II November 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-05 | Author:Beevor, Antony [Beevor, Antony]

Part Three INTO THE COLD WAR 19 The Shadow-Theatre: Plots and Counter-Plots The institution which was most disturbed by de Gaulle’s resignation was the officer corps. There was nobody left ...
( Category: France November 6,2014 )
epub |deu | 0101-01-01 | Author:Moore, Tim [Moore, Tim]

Ten The trouble with cycling up mountains is that — panniers or, as today, no panniers — after about four minutes, as soon as that first metallic-tasting, lactic gasp rasps ...
( Category: General November 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Kathryn Harrison [Harrison, Kathryn]

Joan and her army set out for Reims with the dauphin and his retinue on Monday, June 27, 1429. Cravant, Bonny, Lavau, Saint-Fargeau, Coulanges-la-Vineuse, Auxerre, Saint-Florentin, Brinon, Saint-Phal: all the ...
( Category: France November 4,2014 )
epub |deu | 2013-09-29 | Author:Buckley, Veronica [Buckley, Veronica]

Kapitel 15 La vie en Rose Denk an Dein Vergnügen642 und an Dein Seelenheil; sie schließen sich nicht gegenseitig aus. Das schrieb Françoise ihrem Bruder Charles kurz nach ihrer Hochzeit ...
( Category: France November 3,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-10-30 | Author:Evan McGorman

You make more in the REP than the other metropolitan regiments, although I can’t speak for the overseas regiments. This became glaringly obvious while I was taking a radio course ...
( Category: France October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Ruth Silvestre [Ruth Silvestre]

A few days later I took another look at the decrepit old cupboard which still leaned against the wall in the new room. I knew that English, proprietary brand paint ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Eric Hazan

This battle is an odd story, and singularly forgotten, apart from the monument to Moncey in the middle of the Place de Clichy, and the tiny Impasse de la Défense. ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )