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Historical essays
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Thomas Carlyle |
"Thomas Carlyle, renowned nineteenth-century essayist and social critic, came to be thought of as a secular prophet by many of his readers and as the "undoubted head of English letters" by Ralph Wald… |
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From Louis XIV to Napoleon
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Jeremy Black |
Much of the period 1661-1815 appeared to be the age of France. France was the greatest power in Western Europe in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Louis XIV and Napoleon seemed to do… |
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1759
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Frank McLynn |
History would have been different if not for the events of 1759. It was the fourth year of the Seven Years', or the French-and-Indian, War, and crucial victories against the French in the first truly… |
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How to Ruin a Queen
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Jonathan Beckman |
On 5 September 1785, a trial began in Paris that would divide the country, captivate Europe and send the French monarchy tumbling down the slope towards the Revolution. Cardinal Louis de Rohan, scion… |
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Madame du Deffand and Her World
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Benedetta Craveri |
Biography of Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, Madame du Deffand.
Madame du Deffand, a popular and influential Parisian salon hostess, was widely respected for her keen wit and intellect, and she was a… |
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Patriotic Taste
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Colin B. Bailey |
"During the final decades of the ancient regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David and others that together co… |
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Visualizing the Nation
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Joan B. Landes |
"Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of t… |
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The Age of Napoleon
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J. Christopher Herold |
This third munificent Horizon book which represents a great deal of work by a great many people is, quite frankly, an idea-project-production job with a mass market gift book designation. There are 3… |
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Strength in Numbers
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Carol Blum |
"In the eighteenth century France became convinced it was losing population. While not technically true (France was merely failing to gain population as rapidly as Great Britain and the German states… |
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A revolution in language
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Sophia A. Rosenfeld |
"What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that classic question by concentrating on changing conceptio… |
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The Great Nation
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Colin Jones |
There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discred… |
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Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France (Studies in Early Modern European H…
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Michael R. Lynn |
1 online resource (192 pages) |
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