Category: France

By Paul M. Cohen

ISBN-10: 0226112853

ISBN-13: 9780226112855

By Christopher Allmand

ISBN-10: 085323695X

ISBN-13: 9780853236955

The essays during this quantity painting the general public lifetime of past due medieval France as that state proven its place as a pacesetter of western eu society within the early smooth global. A imperative subject matter is the contribution made by way of modern writers, chroniclers and commentators, corresponding to Jean Froissart, William Worcester and Philippe de Commynes, to our figuring out of the prior. Who have been they? What photo in their instances did they current? have been their works meant to persuade their contemporaries and what luck did they get pleasure from? different contributions take care of the workout of political strength, the connection among the court docket and people in authority in far-flung reaches of the dominion, and the position and standing of the demise penalty as deterrent, punishment and technique of attaining justice. "... a really important assessment of modern paintings at the interface among the highbrow and the political background of the Valois realm."—De Re Militari Online"... this assortment should be of specific curiosity to literary students in addition to historians in view of the emphasis of a few of the essays on representations above occasion or record."—Medium Aevum

By Debora L. Silverman

ISBN-10: 0520080882

ISBN-13: 9780520080881

Explores the shift within the locus of modernity in fin-de-siecle France from technological monument to non-public inside. The textual content examines the political, fiscal, social, highbrow and creative components particular to the French fin-de-siecle that interacted within the improvement of artwork nouveau.

By Bernard Bachrach

ISBN-10: 9004224106

ISBN-13: 9789004224100

Charlemagne's Early Campaigns is the 1st book-length examine of Charlemagne at battle and its specialise in the interval 768-777 makes transparent that the subject, for his forty-six 12 months reign, is enormous. The forget of Charlemagne's campaigns and the international relations that undergirded them has truncated our figuring out of the production of the Carolingian empire and the good luck loved through its chief, who ranks with Frederick the good and Napoleon between Europe's best.
The severe deployment right here of the varied narrative and documentary resources mixed with the systematic use of the significant corpus of archaeological proof, a lot of which the results of excavations undertaken due to the fact international battle II, is utilized the following, intimately, for the 1st time to be able to expand our realizing of Charlemagne's army method and crusade strategies. Charlemagne and his advisers turn out to be very cautious planners, with a radical knowing of Roman army pondering, who have been devoted to using overwhelming strength to be able to win every time attainable with out project bloody strive against. Charlemagne emerges from this examine, to paraphrase a commentary attributed to Scipio Africanus, as an army commander and never a warrior.

By Kate Williams

ISBN-10: 0345522850

ISBN-13: 9780345522856

Their love used to be mythical, their ambition flagrant and unashamed. Napoleon Bonaparte and his spouse, Josephine, got here to energy in the course of the most turbulent sessions within the heritage of France. the tale of the Corsican soldier’s terrific upward push has been good documented. Now, during this spellbinding, luminous account, Kate Williams attracts again the curtain at the lady who beguiled him: her humble origins, her exorbitant appetites, and the tragic flip of occasions that ended in her undoing.

Born Marie-Josèphe-Rose de Tascher de los angeles Pagerie at the Caribbean island of Martinique, the girl Napoleon may later name Josephine was once the final word survivor. She persisted a loveless marriage to a French aristocrat—executed through the Reign of Terror—then slightly escaped the guillotine blade herself. Her near-death adventure in basic terms fueled Josephine’s ambition and heightened her selection to discover a guy who may finance and maintain her. even though no vintage good looks, she speedy built a name as essentially the most fascinating girls at the continent.

In 1795, she met Napoleon. The charm used to be mutual, fast, and extreme. Theirs was once an often-tumultuous union, roiled via their pursuit of alternative fanatics yet intensely excited by strength and luck. Josephine used to be Napoleon’s ideal consort and the thing of nationwide fascination. jointly they conquered Europe. Their extravagance used to be unparalleled, even by way of the factors of Versailles. yet she couldn't produce an inheritor. Sexual obsession introduced them jointly, yet chilly organic fact tore them apart.

Gripping in its immediacy, attractive in its element, Ambition and wish is a real story of hope, heartbreak, and innovative turmoil, engagingly written by way of considered one of England’s such a lot praised younger historians. Kate Williams’s searing portrait of this fascinating and intricate lady will ultimately increase Josephine Bonaparte to the old prominence she merits.

By Lezli Rees

ISBN-10: 0992719712

ISBN-13: 9780992719715

Many folks at the moment are utilizing the puppy Passport scheme to take our pets with us around the Channel for day journeys or vacation trips in France. this convenient consultant exhibits you the place to discover awesome stroll locations for drivers, households and the puppy inside effortless using distance of Calais, and to find a number of the striking, and dog-friendly, customer points of interest of this usually neglected a part of France.

By Michael Broers

ISBN-10: 0571273432

ISBN-13: 9780571273430

This is often the 1st lifetime of Napoleon, in any language, that makes complete use of the hot model of his Correspondence compiled via the basis Napoleon in Paris to switch the sanitized compilation made less than the second one French Empire as a propaganda workout by way of his nephew, Napoleon III. All earlier lives of Napoleon have relied extra at the memoirs of others than on his personal uncensored phrases. Michael Broers' biography attracts at the options of Napoleon himself as his incomparable existence opened up. It finds a guy of extreme emotion, but in addition of iron strength of mind; of acute intelligence and immeasurable strength. Tracing his existence from its harmful Corsican roots, via his rejection of his early id, and the damaging army encounters of his early occupation, it tells the tale of the sheer decision, ruthlessness and cautious calculation that gained him the precarious mastery of Europe by way of 1807. After the epic battles of Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland, France used to be the dominant land strength at the continent. here's the 1st lifestyles within which Napoleon speaks in his personal voice, yet no longer constantly as he sought after the area to listen to him.

By Rick Steves, Steve Smith

By Peter McPhee

ISBN-10: 1444335642

ISBN-13: 9781444335644

A spouse to the French Revolution includes twenty-nine newly-written essays reassessing the origins, improvement, and impression of this nice turning-point in glossy history.
• Examines the origins, improvement and impression of the French Revolution
• gains unique contributions from top historians, together with six essays translated from French.
• offers a wide-ranging review of present old debates at the revolution and destiny instructions in scholarship
• supplies both thorough remedy to either motives and results of the French Revolution

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By Patrice L.-R. Higonnet

ISBN-10: 0674008871

ISBN-13: 9780674008878

ISBN-10: 0674017587

ISBN-13: 9780674017580

ISBN-10: 0674038649

ISBN-13: 9780674038646

In an unique and evocative trip via sleek Paris from the mid-eighteenth century to global struggle II, Patrice Higonnet deals a pleasant cultural portrait of a multifaceted, always altering urban. In interpreting the myths and countermyths of Paris which have been created and re-created through the years, Higonnet unearths a paranormal city alchemy during which each one period absorbs the myths and perceptions of Paris prior, adapts them to the cultural imperatives of its personal time, and feeds them again into the town, making a new atmosphere.

Paris used to be significant to the trendy global in methods inner and exterior, real and imagined, revolutionary and decadent. Higonnet explores Paris because the capital of revolution, technology, empire, literature, and artwork, describing such incarnations as Belle Epoque Paris, the Commune, the surrealists' urban, and Paris as seen via American eyes. He additionally inspires the extra visceral Paris of alienation, crime, fabric extra, and sensual excitement.

Insightful, informative, and gracefully written, Paris illuminates the intersection of collective and person imaginations in a without end transferring city dynamic. In describing his Paris of the true and of the mind's eye, Higonnet sheds wonderful new mild in this ceaselessly fascinating urban.