This volume provides an English translation of firsthand testimonies by three early modern French women. It illustrates the Huguenot experience of persecution and exile during the bloodiest times in the history of Protestantism: the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the dragonnades, and the Huguenot exodus following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The selections given here feature these women's experiences of escape, the effects of religious strife on their families, and their reliance on o...
Time Past; Memories of Proust and Others
by Marie Scheikevitch and Francoise Roussel DeLisle
Histoire de L'Ile Bourbon Depuis 1643 Jusqu'au 20 Decembre 1848 (1862)
by Georges Azeme
Le Gouvernement Et La Constitution Britanniques (1868)
by Charles Menche De Loisne
Oeuvres Completes de Eugene Scribe, Operas-Comiques. Ser. 4, Vol. 18 (Litterature)
by Eugene Scribe
The Fortune of the Rougons (Pocket Classics S.) (Immortal Literature)
by Emile Zola
'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.' Set in the fictitious Provencal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the story of Silvere and Miette, two idealistic young supporters of the republican resistance to Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'etat in December 1851. They join the woodcutters and peasants of the Var to seize control of Plassans, opposed by the Bonapart...
Court and Cloister: Studies in the Short Narrati - In Honor of Glyn S. Burgess (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, #517)
The 15 original essays in this volume represent only a few of the paths that Glyn Burgess's research career has taken: lays, by Marie de France and unknown authors; manuscript collections of lays and fabliaux; episodic narratives, from ancestral/ outlaw romance and Norman vernacular historiography; transformations of the Brendan legend; and authorial voice in religious texts, including Wace's. The diversity of content and approaches has created a volume which will serve both as a fitting tribute...
La conquete d' une cuisiniere I (Eugene Chavette (Books-G-PH Ballin Edition))
by Eugene Chavette
Les Huit Coups de L'Horloge (Arsene Lupin, #11) (Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur, #11)
by Maurice Leblanc
Oeuvres de Condorcet. Tome 11 (Ed.1847-1849) (Litterature)
by de Condorcet J a N
Oeuvres de Condorcet. Tome 12 (Ed.1847-1849) (Litterature)
by de Condorcet J a N