France

By John M. Merriman

ISBN-10: 0300212909

ISBN-13: 9780300212907

The most dramatic chapters within the historical past of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 used to be an eclectic innovative govt that held strength in Paris throughout 8 weeks among 18 March and 28 may perhaps. Its short rule resulted in 'Bloody Week' – the brutal bloodbath of as many as 15,000 Parisians, and even perhaps extra, who perished by the hands of the provisional government's forces. by means of then, the city's boulevards were torched and its monuments toppled. greater than 40,000 Parisians have been investigated, imprisoned or pressured into exile – a purging of Parisian society by means of a conservative nationwide govt whose supporters have been significantly extra horrified by way of a pile of rubble than the numerous deaths of the resisters.

In this gripping narrative, John Merriman explores the novel and progressive roots of the Commune, portray shiny pix of the Communards – the normal employees, well-known artists and notable fire-starting ladies – and their day-by-day lives at the back of the barricades, and reading the ramifications of the Commune at the position of the country and sovereignty in France and sleek Europe. captivating, evocative and deeply relocating, this narrative account deals an entire photograph of a defining second within the evolution of country terror and well known resistance.

By Victor Hugo

ISBN-10: 2368410163

ISBN-13: 9782368410165

Les thirteen titres des ROMANS:
Han d’Islande • trojan horse Jargal • Le dernier Jour d’un Condamné • Notre Dame de Paris • Claude Gueux • Les Misérables ( Les five tomes ) • Les Travailleurs de los angeles mer • L’Homme qui rit • Quatre-vingt-Treize.

Les 18 titres des PREMIÈRES PUBLICATIONS:
Bonheur que procure l’étude • l. a. Canadienne • Le Télégraphe • L’Enrôleur politique • L’Avarice et l’Envie • Épitre à Brutus (Les Vous et les Tu ) • Achéménide • L’Antre des Cyclopes • César passe le Rubicon • Imitation d’Owen • A Lydie • Ce que j’aime • Le Vieillard du Galèse • Discours sur les avantages de l’enseignement mutuel • Le four novembre 1820 • Poésies diverses : Raymond d’Ascoli, Idylle, Les Derniers Bardes

Les 26 titres des ŒUVRES POÉTIQUES:
A Mme los angeles générale Lucotte • Odes et Ballades • Les Orientales • Les Feuilles d’automne • Les Chants du Crépuscule • Les Voix intérieures • Le Retour de l’Empereur • Les Rayons et les Ombres • Les Châtiments • Les Contemplations • l. a. Légende des Siècles • Les Chansons des Rues et des Bois • los angeles Voix de Guernesey • L’Année poor • L’Art d’être Grand ‘Père • Les Enfants (le Livre des Mères) • Le Pape • l. a. Pitié Suprême • L’Âne • Religions et faith • Les Quatre Vents de l’Esprit • los angeles Fin de devil • Dieu • Toute los angeles Lyre • Les années funestes • Dernière Gerbe

Les 24 titres des ŒUVRES THÉÂTRALES:
Inez de Castro • Cromwell et sa préface • Amy Robsart • Marion Delorme et sa préface • Hernani • Le Roi s’amuse • Lucrèce Borgia • Marie Tudor • Angelo tyran de Padoue • Ruy Blas • Les Jumeaux • Les Burgraves • Mille francs de récompense • los angeles Esmeralda • Torquemada • Les deux trouvailles de Gallus • Théâtre en Liberté: los angeles Forêt mouillée • l. a. Grand-Mère • Mangeront-ils ? L’Épée • Prologue • Les Gueux • Sur los angeles Lisière d’un bois • Être aimé

Les 6 titres des OEUVRES POLITIQUES:
Paris • Mes Fils • Actes et paroles 1 • Actes et Paroles 2 • Actes et paroles three • Actes et paroles 4

Les five titres des ESSAIS PHILOSOPHIQUES:
Littérature Et Philosophie Mêlées • William Shakespeare • Préface de l. a. nouvelle traduction de Shakespeare • Préface de mes œuvres et post-scriptum de ma vie • Fragments philosophiques 1860-1865

Les 6 titres des OEUVRES HISTORIQUES:
Funérailles de L’empereur • Napoléon Le Petit • l. a. servilité de los angeles magistrature impériale • Histoire d’un Crime • Cahier complémentaire à l’histoire d’un crime • Choses vues

Les nine DISCOURS CÉLÈBRES:
Discours d’ouverture du Congrès littéraire foreign • L’abolition de l. a. peine de mort • 2 discours sur l. a. liberté de los angeles presse • los angeles liberté du théâtre • l. a. misère • los angeles liberté de l’enseignement • l. a. loi sur l. a. déportation • Le suffrage universel

La CORRESPONDANCE, soit plus de 3000 lettres réparties en three volumes.

Les eight titres des NOTES ET RECITS DE VOYAGES:
Fragments d’un voyage aux Alpes • Bretagne et Normandie 1 • Bretagne et Normandie 2 • Belgique • Le Rhin 1• Le Rhin 2• Le Rhin 3• L’Archipel de los angeles Manche

SES DESSINS, SES NOMBREUSES NOTES, 2 BIOGRAPHIES DÉTAILLÉES

By François Lebrun

ISBN-10: 275783973X

ISBN-13: 9782757839737

Nouvelle histoire de los angeles France moderne:

1. Janine Garrisson, Royauté, Renaissance et Réforme (1483-1559)
2. Janine Garrisson, Guerre civile et Compromis (1559-1598)
3. Yves-Marie Bercé, l. a. Naissance dramatique de l’absolutisme (1598-1661)
4. François Lebrun, los angeles Puissance et los angeles guerre (1661-1715)
5. André Zysberg, los angeles Monarchie des Lumières (1715-1786)

By A. Capet

ISBN-10: 0230009026

ISBN-13: 9780230009028

This assortment gathers some of the best-known names within the English-speaking international within the box of Anglo-French family members, offering an authoritative survey for complex undergraduate and postgraduate scholars learning diplomacy within the lengthy 20th century, beginning with the an important interval of the 1st international battle and finishing with the both advanced query of the second one Iraq warfare. The emphasis is on British perceptions of the Entente, an issue which has now not, before, bought the eye it merits.

By Carolyn Chappell Lougee

ISBN-10: 0190241314

ISBN-13: 9780190241315

The Edict of Nantes ended the civil wars of the Reformation in 1598 via making France a country with religions. Catholics may perhaps worship wherever, whereas Protestants had particular destinations the place they have been sanctioned to worship. Over the arrival a long time Protestants' non secular freedom and civil privileges eroded till the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, issued lower than Louis XIV in 1685, criminalized their religion.

The Robillard de Champagné, a noble kin, have been between these dealing with the Revocation. They and their co-religionists faced the tricky selection no matter if to obey this new legislations and convert, feign conversion and stay privately Protestant, or holiday the legislations and try and flee secretly in what was once the 1st smooth mass migration. during this sweeping family members saga, Carolyn Chappell Lougee narrates how the Champagné family's persecution and Protestant devotion unsettled their monetary benefits and social status. The kinfolk offers a window onto the alternatives that folks and their relatives needed to make in those making an attempt situations, the business enterprise of ladies inside households, and the results in their offerings. Lougee lines the lives of the family who escaped; the kinfolk and group individuals who made up our minds to stick, either complying with and resisting the king's will; and people who resettled in Britain and Prussia, the place they tailored culturally and have become influential participants of society. She demanding situations the narrative Huguenots informed over next generations in regards to the deeper religion of these who opted for exile and the venal traits of these who remained in France.

A masterful and relocating account of the Hugenots, dealing with the Revocation bargains a deeply own point of view on one of many maximum acts of non secular intolerance in history.

By Isser Woloch

ISBN-10: 0393050092

ISBN-13: 9780393050097

An excellent historian explains how Napoleon cast a dictatorship and explores the dilemmas of collaboration, own and political. The Eighteenth Brumaire, November nine, 1799: with France in political and financial turmoil, a gaggle of disaffected politicians enlisted the gifted basic Napoleon Bonaparte to steer a coup d'etat and determine ''confidence from less than, authority from above.'' this is often the tale of the way Napoleon controlled his ascent from basic of the Republic and primary consul to dictator and conqueror of Europe. Napoleon didn't vault into the imperial throne yet moved towards dictatorship progressively; every one statement of recent strength got here gilded with a veneer of legality and a rhetoric of dedication to the beliefs of 1789. during this model Napoleon not just received the higher quit his companions of Brumaire but in addition retained their loyalty and providers going ahead. faraway from shunting apart these collaborators, he positioned them to take advantage of in ways in which happy their such a lot emphatic wishes: political safeguard, fabric self-interest, social prestige, and the chance for high-level public carrier. 10 illustrations.

By 54th Infantry

By Jeremy Rich Ph.D. MA BA

ISBN-10: 0803207417

ISBN-13: 9780803207417

ISBN-10: 0803210914

ISBN-13: 9780803210912

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By Alice Kaplan

ISBN-10: 0226424146

ISBN-13: 9780226424149

By Darwin Porter

ISBN-10: 0764573640

ISBN-13: 9780764573644

ISBN-10: 0764584219

ISBN-13: 9780764584213

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