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1801) L'âme de Napoléon
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"Mais voici. Napoléon n'était pas la multitude. Il était seul, absolument, terriblement seul, et sa solitude avait un aspect d'éternité. Les anachorètes fameux de l'antiquité chrétienne avaient, dans leurs déserts, la conversation des Anges. Ces saints hommes étaient isolés, mais non pas uniques; ils se voyaient entre eux quelquefois, et leur dénombrement est difficile. Napoléon, semblable à un monstre qui aurait survécu à l'abolition...
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Many memoirs of the Napoleonic period are recounting, more or less interesting dependant on the author, of the events of their service interspersed by anecdotes of interesting events, Elzéar Blaze eschewed that style of reminiscence and left a singular view of his time in the Grande Armée. His memoirs are highly stylised, divided into the 'themes' of military life, and eruditely written by an educated man of the era, who combined wit with an eye...
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Extrait : "Ce que contient le livre [...] c'est Notre France, non dans son unité actuelle qui a effacé toute trace des divisions et subdivisions de la vieille France féodale, mais s'exprimant, au contraire, par la forte personnalité de chaque province séparée encore du centre monarchique et vivant de sa vie indépendante."
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Jonathan Wyrtzen's Making Morocco is an extraordinary work of social science history. Making Morocco's historical coverage is remarkably thorough and sweeping; the author exhibits incredible scope in his research and mastery of an immensely rich set of materials from poetry to diplomatic messages in a variety of languages across a century of history. The monograph engages with the most important theorists of nationalism, colonialism, and state formation,...
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Of the many facets of the Napoleonic wars there are a vast number of books written in English on the climactic battle of the age of sail, perhaps only eclipsed by the wealth of material written on the Waterloo Campaign of 1815 as a single subject. However there is not a great deal written as to...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
L'Histoire de la Révolution française, de Jules Michelet (1798-1874), a été publiée de 1847 à 1853.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Histoire de la Révolution française de Jules Michelet
Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée. Cette présentation est couplée avec un article...
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"Un bon témoignage sur Hohenlinden où Trefcon participa comme sergent, sur la Bretagne où il fut exilé pour son attachement à Moreau, sur les guerres d'Espagne et de Russie, sur Waterloo (nombreux détails) et sur la vie d'un demi-solde. " p 164 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L'Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971.
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Comediante or Tragediante? Laugh or Cry? -in the 19th century a new form of literature and plays was born, comedy-tragedy in English. The play combines 2 great human emotions, comedy and tragedy, into one. To laugh or to cry, or do both at the same time, laughing through tears.
In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte became the First Emperor of France. His ambition was to conquer many countries in Europe, so Europe would be united under his empire and function...
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Extrait : "C'est un fait notoire que tout Paris appartient aux provinciaux et aux étrangers, ces provinciaux par excellence. Quant au Parisien, il y tient la moindre place. En vrai monarque, il fréquente seulement quelques résidences connues et abandonne tout le reste de ses palais, de ses jardins, à la foule des curieux. Le Jardin des Plantes, qui renferme aujourd'hui toutes les productions du globe, ne possédait qu'à de longs intervalles un...
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"Dans l'intimité familiale, on n'écrit pas tout ce qu'on dit; on ne dit pas tout ce qu'on pense. La pensée, la parole échappent; de l'écrit, que reste-t-il au bout d'un siècle? Sans doute, il existe des archives privées o doivent être conservés des témoignages singulièrement précieux; mais, en solliciter seulement l'accès engage sinon à des mensonges, au moins à des omissions, et certainement à des jugements influencés; je devais...
1811) Light Cavalry Outposts
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General De Brack served Napoleon and France for many years as a light cavalryman during the wars that raged for over a decade. He served under some of the most able and dashing of officers, including the legendary Lasalle and the celebrated Pajol. During this time, the skills and instincts of outpost duty were engraved on his mind, time-taught instincts long forgotten by the army in peace time. In his older age he was approached by the officers of...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la batalla de Austerlitz, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Entender los deseos expansionistas de Napoleón Bonaparte y las coaliciones formadas para combatirlo, en el marco de las campañas expansionistas francesas y de la poderosa Rusia zarista
• Estudiar las biografías y estrategias de los principales...
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Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care system in the world, ranked thirty-seventh in a comprehensive World Health Organization report. With health care spending only expected to increase, Americans...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Marie-Antoinette en moins d'une heure!
Devenue au fil des ans un personnage mythique de l'histoire de France, Marie-Antoinette n'en est que plus mystérieuse et fascinante. Tantt considérée comme une martyre de la Révolution, tantt comme une despote criminelle, elle ne cesse d'alimenter les débats depuis sa mort tragique survenue à l'âge de 38 ans. C'est que Marie-Antoinette est un personnage...
1815) Histoire de Louis XIV
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Extrait : " Richelieu venait de mourir, et Louis XIII, le premier vassal de son ministre, n'avait pas tardé à le suivre dans le tombeau : la France, encore émue des souvenirs peu glorieux de la régence de Marie de Médicis et de Concini, se voyait avec inquiétude réservée la minorité d'un roi de cinq ans."
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In the fall of 2014, educators Eric and Rixa Freeze moved with their young family to Old Nice, a medieval town-within-a-city on the famed Cote d'Azur. They'd bought a 700-square-foot dive, an apartment in need of renovation just a couple blocks from the Mediterranean.
They were a family with a plan: to live differently. No home in the suburbs with a two-car garage, no bedroom for every child, no 24-hour Walmart.
Carefully researched and vividly written,...
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At the end of World War II, French Jews faced a devastating demographic reality: thousands of orphaned children, large numbers of single-parent households, and families in emotional and financial distress. Daniella Doron suggests that after years of occupation and collaboration, French Jews and non-Jews held contrary opinions about the future of the nation and the institution of the family. At the center of the disagreement was what was to become...
1818) Innovator Or Imitator: Napoleon's Operational Concepts And The Legacies Of Bourcet And Guibert
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In 1805, a new style of operational warfare burst upon the fields of Europe as Napoleon Bonaparte's Grand Army swept from the Rhine to the Danube surrounding the Austrian army at Ulm and initiating a revolution in military affairs (RMA) whose effects are still felt today. The question remains whether this new style of warfare was merely a natural outgrowth of the work of 18th century military thinkers, whose theories were imitated by a dynamic leader,...
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Extrait : "Plus d'un parmi vous s'est sans doute demandé en lisant l'affiche de la Faculté pourquoi j'ai choisi comme sujet de mon cours public La Corruption parlementaire sous la Terreur. Ce n'est pas, je voudrais que vous en fussiez bien convaincus, pour le plaisir facile de faire naître dans vos esprits les allusions malignes ou de raconter des anecdotes scandaleuses."
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Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantes stands as one of the most influential figures in shaping the Napoleonic era: she was no statesman, military or civil leader, but she was a hugely well connected member of the court of Napoleon, and an inveterate gossip. An old family friend of the Bonaparte's from Corsica, she was married to one of Napoleon's oldest friends Andoche Junot, thus moving in the highest circles in Paris, known by and knowing everyone of...
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