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"The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and sent shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth-century France and Europe to create an entirely fresh account of the world's first great modern revolution: its origins, drama, complexity and significance. Was the Revolution...
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The Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 marked both the centennial of the French Revolution and France's recovery from the humiliating defeat of the Franco-Prussian War. Gustave Eiffel's thousand-foot tower celebrated both those events. But the tower was a stunning accomplishment in its own right, the tallest structure made by man. It was as provocative as it was ambitious. Even before its girders reached toward the sky, Charles Gounod, Alexandre Dumas...
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Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize the potential of a new land called the United States. His classic work Democracy in America, first published in 1835, was not only a vivid portrait of the new nation, but also a startlingly accurate forecast of its future. From the influence of evangelical Christianity to the advent of our "consumer society," many of de Tocqueville's predictions have come true.
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When the crated monument first arrived in New York Harbor, few could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty would come to occupy in the American imagination. In this book, cultural historian and scholar of French history Edward Berenson tells the little-known stories of the statue's improbable beginnings, transatlantic connections, and the changing meanings it has held for each successive generation.
He tells of the French intellectuals...
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Popular and scholarly history presents a one-dimensional image of Napoleon as an inveterate instigator of war who repeatedly sought large-scale military conquests. General Franceschi and Ben Weider dismantle this false conclusion in The Wars Against Napoleon, a brilliantly written and researched study that turns our understanding of the French emperor on its head.
Avoiding the simplistic clichés and rudimentary caricatures many historians use when...
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Conceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation's highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886. Dramatically situated on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in the harbor of New York City, the statue has served as a reminder for generations of immigrants of America's long tradition as an asylum for the poor...
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The autobiography of the spouse of the prominent Hungarian politician and revolutionary Ferenc Pulszky. It offers an intriguing female perspective on the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and the subsequent war of independence-the failure of which resulted in the couple being forced to flee to England, where she composed this account of the tumultuous period.
Theresa Pulszky (7 January 1819—4 September 1866), also known as Terézia Pulszky, was an...
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Premier titre d'une nouvelle collection développée en partenariat avec la première chaîne de télévision belge RTBF, Sur les traces de Napoléon suit le parcours de ce guerrier d'exception sur le territoire belge, d'Hestrud à Waterloo, cherchant ainsi l'empreinte historique qu'il y a laissée, près de deux cents ans après son passage. Jean-Louis Lahaye s'entoure d'intervenants pour aller au plus près de ce personnage historique. Il s'attarde...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la bataille de Waterloo en moins d'une heure !
Nous sommes le 18 juin 1815, il est 11 h 15 lorsque Napoléon Ier lance l'assaut. L'enjeu est capital. S'il parvient à vaincre les Britanniques, les Néerlandais et les Prussiens venus l'arrêter, l'Empire pourrait renaître. Dans le cas contraire, c'en est fini de ses rêves de conquête. Son destin se joue donc aujourd'hui.
Tout en nous plongeant au...
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Extrait : "Il est dans l'histoire des peuples certaines époques brillantes o le génie et les talents abondent et o, dans tous les genres à la fois, les facultés de l'homme semblent atteindre leur plus complet développement. Cette glorieuse littéraire a commencé pour l'Allemagne vers la fin du XVIIIe siècle, et a duré jusqu'à la première moitié du XIXe."
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Le 19 juillet 1870, le premier secrétaire d'ambassade de France à Berlin remet au ministère des Affaires étrangères de Prusse, la déclaration de guerre de son pays. Le 1er septembre, l'armée impériale est vaincue à Sedan. Napoléon III est prisonnier. Le 4 septembre, la République est proclamée à Paris. Elle poursuit la guerre, mais n'a quasiment plus d'armée.
L'ouvrage retrace les grandes phases de la guerre de 1870-1871, qui a fait...
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Legend of a Musical City, first published in 1945, is a story of Vienna, musical center of the world. The Nestor of Austrian music critics relates in a fascinating manner his own recollections of life with Bruckner, Brahms, Richard Strauss, and other immortals in the music world. Author, Max Graf, who enjoyed intimate friendships with many of the musical stars of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, here gives a delightful as well as highly educational...
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A fascinating account of the dramatic events leading up to the Siege and the four month siege itself.
The Siege of Paris from September 1870 to the city's capitulation in January 1871 was the result of Louis Napoleon III, Emperor of France's disastrous decision to declare war on Prussia. The Prussian Army of King William I proved vastly superior to their adversaries. After victories at Metz and Sedan, the Prussians marched on Paris virtually unopposed....
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Napoleon wrote "Cavalry is useful before, during and after the battle"; and so it was with his final campaign of Waterloo. Few campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars are as instructive as to the use (and mis-use) of cavalry; from the lethal French cavalry at Quatre Bras, to the initially brilliant, but...
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A fascinating biography of Jacob Fugger of the Lily (1459-1525), a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur and banker. He was a descendant of the Fugger merchant family located in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg, where he was born and later also elevated through marriage to Grand Burgher of Augsburg. Within a few decades he expanded the family firm to a business operating in all of Europe. He began his education at the age of 14 in Venice, which...
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Extrait : "Que veut dire ceci ? o allons-nous ? Qui nous mène ? D'o vient le vent qui souffle ? Est-ce une tempête qui va tout bouleverser profondément, n'est-ce qu'une rafale soudaine et peu durable ? S'agit-il, en un mot, d'une révolution ou simplement d'une émeute ? Aujourd'hui 18 mars, vers quatre heures du matin, j'ai été réveillé par un bruit de pas nombreux. De ma fenêtre, dans le brouillard terne, entre les maisons closes, j'ai vu...
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No battle has generated more myths or more conflicting analyses than that of Waterloo
How worried were they in Brussels, dancing at the Duchess of Richmond's ball? What was Grouchy up to when he was needed? Was the French cavalry destroyed by a sunken road? Was the victory due to Napoleon's state of health on the day of the battle? Was he misled by a local guide? Was a French general murdered after being taken prisoner? Should we really see the...
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