Download or read book The Last Days of the French Monarchy Classic Reprint written by Sophia H. Maclehose and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Last Days of the French Monarchy In the following pages I have attempted to give such a sketch of the events preceding the French Revolution as shall enable the reader to approach the more important histories with interest and intelligence. The great prose poem of Carlyle takes much for granted, and to the proper understanding of such works as that of Mr. Morse Stephens some familiarity with the older court and political life of France is desirable. There is abundant material from which to gather this information, but no simple yet detailed account, and it is with the hope of supplying the want that I venture to publish this volume. References throughout the text, and a list of the books consulted, with full titles of the editions used, are given to enable readers to turn for themselves to the acknowledged authorities. 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 The Last Days of the French Monarchy written by Sophia H. MacLehose and published by Glasgow, MacLehose. This book was released on 1901 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Days of the French Monarchy written by Hilaire Belloc and published by London : Chapman & Hall. This book was released on 1916 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Andree de Taverney Or the Downfall of French Monarchy Classic Reprint written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Andree De Taverney, or the Downfall of French Monarchy WE have related in a work entitled The Countess de Charny, the terrible events that took place on the Champ de Mars during the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1791; tried to reproduce the scene - to place before our readers' eyes the tragedy that had just been enacted, in which Bailly and La Fayette were the principal performers. 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 Louis XIV written by Arthur Hassall and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louis XIV: And the Zenith of the French Monarchy Growth of a European opposition to Louis - Formation of the League of Augsburg, July, 1686 - Louis' demands - His determination to secure the districts given him for twenty years by the Truce of Ratisbon - The Cologne Archbishop rick - The Palatinate Succession question - Seizure of Phil ippsburg - Criticism of Louis' action - Revolution of 1688 in England - The German opposition to France is strength ened - Devastation of the Palatinate - Its import and - ejects - The definite beginning of the war of Augsburg - England's in uence thrown against Louis - War between England and France in Ireland, at sea, and in the Spanish Netherlands The battles of Beachy Head and the Boyne - Ruin of James ii.'s cause in Ireland - French defeat at La Hogue - Campaigns in the Netherlands, in Italy, and on the Rhine - Death of Louvois - Defection of the Duke of Savoy - Peace of Ryswick - The Peace only a truce. 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 The Last Days of the French Monarchy written by Hilaire Belloc and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Last Days of the French Monarchy written by Sophia H. Maclehose and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The History of France From the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Death of Louis XVI written by William Grimshaw and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of France From the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Death of Louis XVI: Interspersed With Entertaining Anecdotes and Biographies of Eminent Men Edgeworth, Rev. M. 301. Egalite, M. See (1. Of Orleans. Elizabeth, princess, 284, 286. Eudes, 41, 42. 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 LAST DAYS OF THE FRENCH MONARC written by Hilaire 1870-1953 Belloc and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France Vol 4 Classic Reprint written by Alphonse De Lamartine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France, Vol. 4 While the Prince was thus offering an honourable capitu lation at Cadiz, and a security to the vanquished in the provinces, he made a decisive assault on the peninsula of the Trocadero, the fortifications of which kept our mortars too distant from the city The army, the fleet, and the Prince himself attacked this volcano of artillery with that cool bravery which never thinks of death in the performance of duty, and which constitutes in the general and the troops that sangfroid of heroism so peculiarly French. The Duke d'an'gouléme exposed himself to the fire like the boldest of his grenadiers. The Prince of Carignan, who had been exiled from his country for his participation in the revolution of Turin, and who was desirous of redeeming his fault by repentance made illustrious on the field of battle, marched as a volunteer to the assault on the Trocadero, in the front rank of the grenadiers of the royal guard. What a sad and singular destiny was that of this prince, brave but deficient in judgment, who had excited to revolt the army of his uncle the King of Sardinia, in favour of the Spanish Constitution, and was now fighting against that identical Constitution before the walls of Cadiz and who, after having subsequently persecuted and punished, while on the throne, during a long and ungrateful reign, the accomplices of his first revolutionary attempt, was to proclaim in Italy in 1848, the cause of independence and revolution, and to return, finally, near that same sea of Spain, to die of grief for his defeat: the victim by turns of the two causes which he had promoted, deserted, combated, and served, but always at the wrong time. 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 The Last Days of the Reign of Louis Philippe Classic Reprint written by M. Guizot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Last Days of the Reign of Louis Philippe Two great nations, England and the United States of America, present to the world in our day the spectacle Of this new fact in worldly practice - free government is established, and its conditions aecom plished under forms and institutions profoundly dif ferent. All the liberties I have named, and which constitute henceforth political freedom, exist and de veiop themselves with equal energy in both these countries. In one, they surrounded the cradle and defend the life of the republic. In the other, they were born and prosper under the aegis of monarchy. 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 The Coronation of Edward the Seventh written by John Edward Courtenay Bodley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Coronation of Edward the Seventh: A Chapter of European and Imperial History [Owing to the scope of this work, many international, historical and constitutional questions are treated on which opinion is necessarily not unanimous. The author, therefore, wishes it to be understood that he is solely responsible for all that is contained in these pages.] 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 Vive la Revolution written by Mark Steel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel, bestselling author of REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL, the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when ordinary people changed the world and became extraordinary. It deserves better jokes than that. In this revolutionary new book, Steel banishes stuffiness from history, telling us what happened in France between the storming of the Bastille and the rise of Napoleon, bringing to life the people who made them happen. His account is dominated by bizarre events and splendid characters, from the famously odd Robespierre, Danton and Thomas Paine, to the less well known Drouet, the local postman who arrested the fleeing King because he recognised him as the man off of the money. VIVE LA REVOLUTION is an uproariously serious work of history - brilliantly funny and insightful, it puts the peculiarity of individual people back at the centre of the story.
Download or read book A History of France Vol 2 written by G. W. Kitchin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of France, Vol. 2: A. D. 1453-1624 Lastly there comes a very different time. The foreign wars are over; cunning is pitted against daring: the age is weary of life, yet full of the fear of death: the first traces of introspection appear, and men shrink back from themselves. Questionings as to the moral bearing of things, as to the political bases of life, precede, in France at least, all enquiry into the deeper problems of religion. Assassinations stain the page of history; men live in daily dread of poison; the Dance of Death is painted on the wall; the arts of corruption are found to be all-powerful; the truth blenches before the lie. The question, so often asked a little later, How shall a Prince rule over his people? First finds a tentative answer in the life of Louis XI, as we read it in the pages of Philip of Commines. He, and a few years later, a very different man, the Florentine Macchiavelli, set themselves to find the solution of this great problem, which is the first to emerge among the elements of modern national life. In substance the two men bring out the same answer. The old world is dying: none but the nimble and the unscrupulous can walk in high places without falling. The Italian draws a more precise picture than that which we can gather from the diffuse pages of the franco-burgundian chronicler: the Florentine has also this great advantage over his predecessor. 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 The Romance of the House of Savoy Classic Reprint written by Alethea Wiel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Romance of the House of Savoy King Charles VI. Of France against the English, and where he is described as dressed in deep mourning for his father, the Conte Verde, whose death had oc curred that same year in Apulia. The French monarch, on receiving the news of the birth of a son to Amadeus, begged him to doff his sables and to array him self in more festive garb. Count Ama deus could find no excuse for refusing; the thought of his own fatherhood must have softened his grief and caused him to rejoice over his son's birth. 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 The History of Henry the Fifth written by George Makepeace Towle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Henry the Fifth: King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Heir of France And nothing can we call our own but death For heaven's sake. Let us sit upon the ground, And tell and stories of the death of kings. 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 The Last Libertines written by Benedetta Craveri and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling work of history about the Libertine generation that came up during—and was eventually destroyed by—the French Revolution. The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, is the story of a group of “seven aristocrats whose youth coincided with the French monarchy’s final moment of grace—a moment when it seemed to the nation’s elite that a style of life based on privilege and the spirit of caste might acknowledge the widespread demand for change, and in doing so reconcile itself with Enlightenment ideals of justice, tolerance, and citizenship.” Here we meet seven emblematic characters, whom Craveri has singled out not only for “the romantic character of their exploits and amours—but also by the keenness with which they experienced this crisis in the civilization of the ancien régime, of which they themselves were the emblem.” Displaying the aristocratic virtues of “dignity, courage, refinement of manners, culture, [and] wit,” the Duc de Lauzun, the Vicomte de Ségur, the Duc de Brissac, the Comte de Narbonne, the Chevalier de Boufflers, the Comte de Ségur, and the Comte de Vaudreuil were at the same time “irreducible individualists” and true “sons of the Enlightenment,” all of them ambitious to play their part in bringing around the great changes that were in the air. When the French Revolution came, however, they found themselves condemned to poverty, exile, and in some cases execution. Telling the parallel lives of these seven dazzling but little-remembered historical figures, Craveri brings the past to life, powerfully dramatizing a turbulent time that was at once the last act of a now-vanished world and the first act of our own.
