Download or read book A Father s Tales of the French Revolution written by Mary L. Meaney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Father's Tales of the French Revolution: Comprising the King and Queen; The Royal Children; The Viscount's Family; Tommy, the English Orphan; And Marquis De Lafayette With these words a group of eager children surrounded the sofa on Which their father lay, suffering With a sprained ankle. A smile brightened his face as he looked on his bright, intelligent boys and girls. But, my dears, interposed the thought ful mother, While your father is in so much pain you do not expect him to amuse you with stories? It is rather your place now to amuse him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31 1942 written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue phase 1 1816 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Royal Kids of the Revolution written by Deanna Hurtubise and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Kids of the Revolution is the true story of Queen Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI’s four children taking the reader from pre-Revolutionary France and the family’s privileged life at the castle of Versailles through the tumultuous years of the French Revolution. Tragedy after tragedy befalls the family with illness, untimely deaths, kidnappings and devious political schemes and plots to turn the people against the King and Queen. After months of social unrest and mob violence, the family is forced from Versailles and taken prisoner to Paris. An unsuccessful attempt to escape the country puts them in the squalid Temple Prison where the King and Queen will ultimately go to the guillotine leaving the children to suffer years of illness and abuse from the guards. Somehow, they must hold on to the will to survive. Royal Kids of the revolution tells the unimaginable but true story of the French Revolution from the perspective of the children and weaves it with intense emotion, intrigue, political schemes as well as a connection to American history.
Download or read book The Orphan King written by Lizzi Wolf and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I knew the moment Papa was beheaded because Maman fell to her knees and hailed me as King Louis XVII. I was seven years old. After his father, Louis XVI, and mother, Marie-Antoinette, are beheaded in the French Revolution, 8-year-old King Louis XVII is sealed into a pitch-dark closet and isolated from all human contact. Struggling to survive the darkness, silence, and loneliness, Louis tries to make sense of the cataclysmic events--beginning in 1789, when he was 4 years old--that led to the destruction of his cherished family. As he endures the brutal consequences of his father's misguided reign, the young king wonders why the French people hated his parents so much and how he might rise above their moral failings. The Orphan King is "Quite evocative--quite beautiful. The first-person narration in the voice of this boy-king has all the remarkable gravitas required for a learned boy who ages through maltreatment while imprisoned...yet his voice is searching and plaintive." Cleis Abeni, Editor
Download or read book Prominent Families of New York written by Lyman Horace Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prisoner Prince written by Olga B. Kurtz and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing about the short life of Louis Charles was ordinary. As the son of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI, he was heir to the throne of France and lived in privilege and luxury, but this was the beginning of the French revolution. He and his family were imprisoned, and conditions continued to worsen. His personal ordeal began after his parents were executed. He was confined in a filthy cell, totally alone, ill and demoralized. He died when he was ten years old. Yet, because of the suspicions surrounding his death, 200 years later, scientists were conducting DNA tests on a preserved heart to determine whether or not it was the heart of Louis Charles, or one of his many impersonators. Prisoner Prince vividly describes the chaos of the period as well as unraveling the mystery of that unfortunate boy and his pretenders.
Download or read book In the Reign of Terror written by G. A. Henty and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Reign of Terror" is one of the most popular and enduring tales by British author G. A. Henty, who wrote over one hundred historical tales of adventure and bravery. First published in 1888, the central character is Harry Sandwith, a sixteen-year-old boy who is sent from his school in Westminster by his family to live with the Marquis de St. Caux and his family at their chateau in France. Harry's father, who once served under the Marquis, wishes his own sons to have the influence and friendship of a properly educated and independent British boy. Harry arrives in France in 1790 and grows close to the Marquis and his children when he proves himself to be brave and resourceful. Soon the growing unrest and danger of the French Revolution reaches Harry and his surrogate family, as the Marquis' sons attempt to flee to England and Harry and the three daughters hide in Paris. Harry proves his courage and loyalty over and over again as he rescues his aristocratic friends from imprisonment and execution at the hands of angry mobs. Readers young and old alike will enjoy this timeless and heroic tale of bravery and friendship. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Download or read book The French Revolution written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Reign of Terror written by G. A. Henty and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy is a novel by G. A. Henty published in 1888. The novel follows the adventures of Harry Sandwith, an English boy sent to live with the Marquis de St. Caux during the height of the French Revolution.Harry Sandwith, a sixteen-year-old English boy, is sent to live in France with the Marquis de St. Caux, a friend of a French nobleman Harry's father once served. The marquis is impressed with the English system of schooling and believes that his two sons, Ernest and Jules, will benefit from the influence and friendship of an independent and manly English boy. Harry, who is an undistinguished student at Westminster School, is eager for the opportunity to live in France, which he believes will create greater opportunities for him when he joins the British army. Harry sets off for Paris in 1790 with the intention of living with the St. Caux family for the next two to three years.
Download or read book Hero Tales from History written by Smith Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical View of the French Revolution written by Jules Michelet and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire in the Minds of Men written by James H. Billington and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.
Download or read book A Lady of the High Hills written by Thomas Tisdale and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her birth at the palace at Versailles to her death on a South Carolina plantation, Natalie Delage Sumter (1782-1841) lived a life riveted by escape, adventure, grandeur, and hardship - a saga that spanned several turnultuous decades of French history and included her residence on three continents. The godchild of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and a member of the French nobility, Nathalie de Lage de Volude fled to New York at age eleven at the height of the French Revolution. She lived for eight years in the household of politician Aaron Burr and became a confidante of his daughter, Theodosia. On her return voyage to France, Delage fell in love with Thomas Sumter Jr., a diplomat to France and the son of South Carolina's Revolutionary War Gamecock. The couple enjoyed a celebrated shipboard romance, and with their subsequent marriage, Natalie Sumter entered the world of the southern planter aristocracy. A Lady of the High Hills follows the epic events that took Sumter to Brazil, back to France, and ultimately to plantation life in Stateburg, South Carolina. Thomas Tisdale describes Sumter's adjustment to life in the South Carolina backcountry, her role as the matriarch of the
Download or read book France and the Age of Revolution written by William Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the turmoil and tragedy of the French Revolution to the rise and fall of the enigmatic figure of Napoleon Bonaparte, the history of France between 1789 and 1815 is one of the most enduringly fascinating - and widely-studied - periods of history. In this volume, the renowned historian William Doyle provides a new perspective on several key themes within the history of this period - from the world of the Ancien Regime to the Battle of Waterloo. He sheds new light on the causes of the French Revolution and the impact of the revolution outside France. In taking a fresh look at the Napoleonic Empire, he considers the influences on Napoleon's leadership decisions and the machinations of his court. Written by one of the leading historians of Revolutionary France, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe.
Download or read book Chronicles of the Cape Fear River 1660 1916 written by James Sprunt and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
