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Author
Publisher
Hetzel
Pub. Date
[n.d.]
Language
Français
Description
Extrait : "Le jeudi 20 décembre 1848, l'Assemblée constituante, entourée en ce moment-là d'un imposant déploiement de troupes, étant en séance, à la suite d'un rapport du représentant Waldeck Rousseau, fait au nom de la commission chargée de dépouiller le scrutin pour l'élection à la présidence de la République, rapport o l'on avait remarqué cette phrase qui en résumait toute la pensée : « C'est le sceau de son inviolable puissance...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A novel on the 19th century French colonization of Algeria. In a bid to forestall a revolt, Napoleon III dispatches France's top magician, hoping an exhibition of his powers will impress rebellious sheiks with the superiority of European civilization. But the magician's wife--events are seen through her eyes--finds Arab civilization superior. By the author of The Statement.
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1929
Language
English
Description
In this brief and readable study, noted biographer Edmund D'Auvergne recounts the life and times of Napoleon III and the times that reigned across Europe. An arch political schemer he capitalized on the ferment in French society that carried on even after the fall of his uncle, the Emperor Napoleon, to gain the summit of his power. However, his actions in power were frequently moderate in nature toward his French subjects, but his attempts to increase...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
1983, c1955
Language
English
Description
An excellent one volume portrait of Napoleon III and the short-lived second French Empire which was brought to ruins by the 1870 Franco-Prussian war."ONCE again J. M. Thompson has given us a colorful, arresting, and interpretative account of a period of French history-this time of the Second Empire. In this instance, as in previous works, the author makes the biography of a man (Louis Napoleon) the vehicle for a history of a period, thereby infusing...
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