Download or read book Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio written by Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia and the utopia he attempted to create in what is now Ohio. Looking to build a perfect society based on what France might have become without the Revolution, Lezay-Marnésia bought more than twenty thousand acres of land along the banks of the Ohio River from the Scioto Company, which promised French aristocrats a fertile, conflict-free refuge. But hostilities between the U.S. Army and the Native American tribes who still lived on the land prevented the marquis from taking possession. Ruined and on the verge of madness, Lezay-Marnésia returned to France just as the Revolution was taking a more radical turn. He barely escaped the guillotine before dying a few years later in poverty and desperation. This edition of the Letters, introduced and edited by Benjamin Hoffmann and superbly translated by Alan J. Singerman, presents the work for the first time since the beginning of the nineteenth century—and the first time ever in English. The volume features a rich collection of supplementary documents, including texts by Lezay-Marnésia’s son, Albert de Lezay-Marnésia, and the American novelist Hugh Henry Brackenridge. This fresh perspective on the young United States as it was represented in French literature casts new light on a captivating and tumultuous period in the history of two nations.
Download or read book Historical Collections of Ohio written by Henry Howe and published by Heritage Books. This book was released on 1902 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Catholic Historical Researches written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Military History of Ohio written by A. Parsons Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University Studies written by University of Cincinnati and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surviving the French Revolution written by Bette W. Oliver and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unleashing of the French Revolution in 1789 resulted in the acceleration of time coupled with an inability to predict what might happen next. As unprecedented events outpaced the days, those caught up in the whirlwind had little time to make judicious decisions about which course of action to follow. The lack of reliable information and delays in communication between Paris and the provinces only exacerbated the situation. Consequently, some fled into exile in Europe and the United States, while others remained to take advantage of new opportunities provided by the revolutionary government. Between 1789 and 1794, the government moved from a position of hopeful cooperation to one of desperate measures instigated during the Terror of 1793–1794. As a result, those French citizens who had fled early in the revolution, including many aristocrats and the king's brothers, as well as the artist Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun, could not return until many years later, while those who had remained, such as Vigée-LeBrun’s husband, the art dealer Jean-Baptiste Pierre LeBrun, as well as the artist Jacques-Louis David, the writers Sébastien Chamfort and André Chénier, and expelled Girondin deputies, chose survival strategies that they hoped would be successful. For all those concerned, timing was key to survival, and those who lived found that they had crossed a bridge between the Ancien Régime and the beginning of the modern world. It would not be possible to grasp the full import of the period between 1789 and 1795 until time had decelerated to a more reasonable level after the fall of Robespierre in 1794. Yet few could have then imagined that almost one hundred years would pass before a stable French republic would be established.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana 1893 written by Clarke, firm, booksellers, Cincinnati and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grandeur and Grace in the Ohio Country Building America from the Ground Up 1784 1860 written by William E. Firestone and published by William Firestone. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Problems in the Prometheus written by Joseph Edward Harry and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University of Cincinnati Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University of Cincinnati Studies Studies in Sophocles written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ohio Frontier written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the arrival in Ohio of Iroquois-speaking Indians, the entry of white fur traders and missionaries, the slaughter and expulsion of the Indians, and settlement by New Englanders and others.
Download or read book History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississipi written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
