Author: François-René vicomte de ChateaubriandPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 212
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Mémoires d'outre-tombe (1814-1815)
Author: François-René vicomte de ChateaubriandPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : fr
Pages : 212
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Memoires D'outre-tombe
Author: F.A.R. ChateaubriandPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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1815
Author: Gregor DallasPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448103290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The seventeen months from April 1814 to August 1815 were an extraordinary period in European history; a period which saw two sieges of Paris, a complete revision of Europe's political frontiers, an international Congress set up in Vienna, civil war in Italy and international war in Belgium.Gregor Dallas tells the story of these days through the perspectives of three very different European cities: the great metropolis of London, post-revolutionary Paris and baroque Vienna. The writing is almost cinematic in its power to evoke and bring to life the Europe of Tolstoy: the ebb and flow of power, of armies and of peoples across Europe's northern plains. Working essentially from primary sources, Dallas is as interested in the weather conditions before battle as in the way cartoonists reacted to court intrigues and fashions.It is also Europe seen through the eyes of its central players: Talleyrand, who has served nearly every French regime since the Revolution of 1789; Metternich, who devises new plans for a 'Germany' that does not yet exist and for a 'Europe' that remains devided; Wellington, who reveals himself a diplomat as well as a soldier; Tsar Alexander, an idealist seeking to impose a uniform plan for all Europe; and 'Boney' himself, who has his own ideal of Europe and, though banished to Elba, does not abandon his dream to realise it.
Pavie in the Borderlands
Author: Betje Black KlierPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807125304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Pavie in the Borderlands describes the cultural forces that shaped the trans-Mississippi West between 1765 and 1838 by focusing on the extraordinary Pavie family. From their settlement on the Louisiana frontier, three generations of Pavies witnessed the creation of the U.S. and its territorial expansion through the Louisiana Purchase. Betje Black Klier relates the experiences of the Pavies through the adventures of their kinsman Thèodore, an enterprising eighteen-year-old who left provincial France to visit Louisiana and Texas in 1829 and 1830. Thèodore kept a journal and published his exploits in a volume entitled Souvenirs atlantiques. In the first of its two parts, Pavie in the Borderlands provides the story of the family's early experiences in North America; a biographical study of Thèodore; translations of some of his colorful letters from the borderlands; and an analysis of how his travels transformed him. The second part of the volume presents the first English translation of a substantial portion of Thèodore's journal, including reproductions of his sketches of Louisiana and Texas environs. Klier unveils the young scholar and artist as the most significant nineteenth-century travel writer to journey west of the Mississippi. By intertwining Louisiana and Texas history with French history, Pavie in the Borderlands provides important new insights on the region's environmental, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual history.
Catholic Royalism in the Department of the Gard 1814-1852
Author: Brian FitzpatrickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The history of a counter-revolutionary movement in southern France.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2122
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The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2048
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The Holy Alliance
Author: William Penn CressonPublisher:
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Category : Monroe doctrine
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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