France
epub |eng | 2019-02-23 | Author:Rick Steves & Steve Smith

By Bus The efficient bus station (gare routière) is 100 yards to the right as you exit the Centre-Ville train station, beyond and below Hôtel Ibis (helpful info desk open ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-13 | Author:Arlan, Jonathan [Arlan, Jonathan]

When we got up the hill, the hotel was still unstaffed. I tried knocking again, but no one came. Colin tried. Nothing. Then he noticed that the door was unlocked ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-15 | Author:Isham, Thomas [Isham, Thomas]

* * * 2 . There was a brief and quite insignificant adolescent hiatus. 3 . Richard Lebrun, quoting from the Preface to the second edition of Du Pape , ...
( Category: Catholicism February 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:John Kendrick Bangs

CHAPTER VII: THE 19TH BRUMAIRE - CONSUL - THE TUILERIES - CAROLINE 1799 "There is no question about my greatness now," said Napoleon, as he meditated upon his position. "Even ...
( Category: Historical European Biographies February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-11 | Author:Alain Badiou

III Reactive Subjectivities At this stage, I want to come to the typical subjectivities that appear in our conjuncture. By ‘typical subjectivity’ I understand the psychic forms, the forms of ...
( Category: Philosophy February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-10 | Author:Philip Mansel [Mansel, Philip]

18 France against Europe ‘Ultima ratio regum’, ‘The final argument of kings’, was the motto often inscribed on Louis XIV’s massive bronze cannon, below the royal crown and coat of ...
( Category: Royalty February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gillian Tindall

I have already mentioned that the decorative plate, valued and preserved in the Camp-Montague household because some forgotten forebear had once given it to another, looks like a ‘fairing’ from ...
( Category: Memoirs February 15,2020 )
mobi | | 2019-03-29 | Author:Norbert Elias [Elias, Norbert]

king's power in relation to the nobility, while greater than that of any preceding king, was less than Louis XIV's. He was not yet so preponderant as the latter nor, ...
( Category: Class February 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rebecca L. Spang

The Laws of Taste Taking shape across the decade of Grimod de la Reynière’s dictates and pronouncements, gastronomic discourse regularly reiterated the necessary chasm separating preparation from consumption, kitchen from ...
( Category: History February 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-20 | Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]

Chapter Five Continuing Conflict and Courtly Love “Before the King crossed over [the Channel] on this occasion, the nobles of Maine and Brittany had failed to obey the Queen’s orders ...
( Category: Royalty February 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Munro Price [Price, Munro]

Chapter Ten THE KING AND THE CONSTITUTION THE ROYAL FAMILY immediately felt the consequences of their failed escape. On 25 June, the day they returned to Paris, the king was ...
( Category: Europe February 6,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:James Kirchick

6 Brexit: From Great Britain to Little England England … will save Europe by her example. William Pitt the Younger, 1805 We seem, as it were, to have conquered half ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:Rebecca L. Spang

Money: Stuff and Politics In the face of war, civil war, and the nearly complete collapse of governance in some parts of western and southern France, the National Convention began ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-15 | Author:Thomas Carlyle

Chapter VIII. The Jacobins. Nevertheless let not Patriotism despair. Have we not, in Paris at least, a virtuous Pétion, a wholly Patriotic Municipality? Virtuous Pétion, ever since November, is Mayor ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Douglas Boyd

Chapter 18: War on the belly of Dan Dahomey 1892 – 1894 The Legion’s elevation to the status of a brigade in December 1884 made little difference to the units ...
( Category: Engineering January 16,2020 )