Papillon
Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, was said to have carried her cherished Papillons to the guillotine during the French Revolution. Luckily enough for the Papillons, they were spared the same fate as their owner. Throughout Europe, exact ... [... more]
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Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson's magnum opus, To the Finland Station, is a stirring account of revolutionary politics, people, and ideas from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. It is a work of history on a ... [... more]
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Joseph Connors
A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution." Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written [... more]
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Richard Cobb
Perhaps no one loves France as much as the English--at least some of the English--and Richard Cobb, the incomparable Oxford historian of the French Revolution, was a passionate admirer of the country, a connoisseur of the low dive and the ... [... more]
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Rudolf Wittkower
A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution." Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written [... more]
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Margot Wittkower
A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution." Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written [... more]
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Robert P. Libbon
From the French Revolution to the Cold War, this spirited chronicle brings European history to life, following the trails of treachery, unearthing the dirt on key historical figures, and reconstructing dramatic revolutionary battles. So if you've ... [... more]
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Francis Back
When the French Revolution broke out in 1789, France possessed numerous colonies spread over three continents. To defend and keep the peace in these territories, a small army of colonial troops, distinct from the metropolitan line regiments or ... [... more]
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Walter Laqueur
From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction A History of Zionism Walter Laqueur Edward Holland [... more]
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Marilyn Yalom
Marilyn Yalom is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. She is the author of A History of the Wife; A History of the Breast; Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory; and Maternity, Mortality, ... [... more]
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