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Known for its advances in literature, industrialization, politics, and science, the Victorian era was a prominent time in British history. However, author Lytton Strachey remembers Queen Victoria as a person instead of just focusing on her accomplishments. First starting with a brief history of her predecessors and origins, Victoria was crowned just as she came of age. Having only been eighteen, Queen Victoria was widely unfamiliar to her subjects...
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Extrait : "La Réforme en Angleterre eut une caractère non seulement religieux, mais social. A l'époque o le moule spirituel du Moyen Age était brisé, une révolution correspondante, non moins complète et de non moindre portée, se produisit dans l'économie de la vie temporelle et la répartition du pouvoir. Les seigneurs et les ecclésiastiques qui depuis des siècles avaient régné, disparurent ; on vit s'établir à leur place une classe...
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The romance of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux captures "the real drama of ambition, passion, and personality in the pageant of veracious history" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
The author who helped to shape the modern biography turned his glorious prose and searing wit to one of the most famous romances in British history, that of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. As the San Francisco Chronicle raved, "Elizabeth is...
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