Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lille (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
An Exact Journal of the Siege of Lisle
Author: An Exact Journal of the Siege of Lisle
Author: Mey (sieur de.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lille (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An Exact Journal of the Siege of Lisle, from the Opening of the Trenches, to the Entire Reduction of the Said Place, Under the Command of His Highness Prince Eugene of Savoy
Author: de MeyAn Exact Journal of the Siege of Lisle,
Author: sieur de MeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lille (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Vauban under Siege
Author: Jamel OstwaldPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047411501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History Vauban under Siege is the first systematic comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality. It places Vauban’s siege accomplishments back into their broader context, highlighting his continuation of the quest for ever-greater efficiency pursued by a century of military engineers. Based on a comprehensive inventory of sieges in the War of the Spanish Succession, it describes how both French and Allied military officers rejected this efficiency paradigm and embraced instead vigorous brute force tactics. Ignoring their over-worked and under-compensated engineers at key points, generals chose to save precious campaign time by sacrificing their soldiers’ lives in siege after siege. This early modern cult of the offensive has influenced the Western way of war ever since.
An Exact Journal of the Siege of Lisle
Author: sieur de MeyElements of Military Art and Science
Author: Henry Wager HalleckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Story of the Great War
Author: Francis Joseph ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Cosmopolis — Complete
Author: Paul BourgetPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Cosmopolis — Complete is a novel by French author Paul Bourget, known for his psychological and social exploration in his works. In Cosmopolis, Bourget delves into the complexities of human relationships and the cultural intricacies of an interconnected world. His keen observations and nuanced storytelling make this work an engaging and thought-provoking read.
The Dungeons of Old Paris: Being the Story and Romance of the most Celebrated Prisons of the Monarchy and the Revolution
Author: Tighe HopkinsPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465615075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
If walls had tongues, those of the Conciergerie might rehearse a wretched story. This is, I believe, the oldest prison in Europe; it would speak with the twofold authority of age and black experience. Give these walls a voice, and they might say: "Look at the buildings we enclose. There is a little of every style in our architecture, reflecting the many ages we have witnessed. Paris and France, in all the reigns of all the Kings, have been locked in here, starved here, tortured here, and sent from here to die by hanging, by beheading, by dismembering by horses, by fire, and by the guillotine. We have found chains and a bitter portion for the victims of all the tyrannies of France,—those of the Feudal Ages, those of the Absolute Monarchy, those of the Revolution, and those of the Restoration. There is no discord, trouble, passion, or revolution in France which is not recorded in our annals. Politics, religion, feuds of parties and of houses, private rancours and the enmities of queens, the vengeance of kings and the jealousies of their ministers, have filled in turn the vaults of this little city of the dead-in-life. We have seen the killing of the innocent; the torment of a Queen; the tears of a Dubarry and the stoicism of a hideous Cartouche; the collapse of a Marquise de Brinvilliers under torture and the silent heroism of a Charlotte Corday on her way to the guillotine; the bold immodesty of a La Voisin on the rack and the solemn abandon of the 'last supper' of the Girondins. We have seen the worst that France could shew of wickedness and the best that it could shew of patriotism; we have seen the beginning and the end of everything that makes the history of a prison." Most French writers who have touched upon the Conciergerie seem to have felt the oppression of the place; their recollections or impressions are recorded in a spirit of melancholy or indignation. "Ah, that Conciergerie!" exclaims Philarète Chasles; "there is a sense of suffocation in its buildings; one thinks of the prisoner, innocent or guilty, crushed beneath the weight of society. Here are the oldest dungeons of France; Paris has scarcely begun to be when those dungeons are opened."