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変革栄えて、国滅ぶ。これは230年前に書かれた「現代日本の省察」だ！18世紀、自由と秩序のバランスを求めて、華麗な弁舌をふるったイギリスの政治家・文人エドマンド・バーク。

The Revolutionary Self is a fascinating exploration of the conflict between individualism and the group ties that continues to shape our lives today.

In the six lectures of The Power and Persona of Catherine de’ Medici, you will join Professor William Landon of Northern Kentucky University to explore the impact of an unlikely ruler who established an astonishing political and cultural legacy.

Tome 1 : Gênes - Austerlitz - Eylau. "J'engage le colonel Marbot à continuer à écrire pour la défense et la gloire des Armées françaises..."

Ce manuel, à la fois rigoureux et pourtant facile d'accès, relate la fascinante histoire de la France, de Vercingétorix...

The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre....

This chapter of France's history is about the French Revolution: attempts at Reform, the States-General, the new constitution...

In the tumultuous world of revolutionary France, the enigmatic diplomat Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord survived–and shaped–five regimes.

W trzynastu ekskluzywnych i jednocześnie zabawnych wywiadach o francuskim stylu opowiadają sławni Polacy zakochani we...

The revolutions that raged across Europe and the Americas over seven decades, from 1760 to 1825, created the modern world. In The Age of Revolutions, historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal offers the first narrative history of this entire era

From the acclaimed biographer of explorers Magellan, Columbus, and Francis Drake comes a unique exploration of life and influence of Jules Verne, the novelist whose mind spun the greatest adventures ever told and whose daring and prescient imagination sparked a lasting transformation of modern...

The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a...

Dialogues improvisés autour des grands faits qui ont marqué une époque, ces trois entretiens totalement inédits transportent l'auditeur au cœur de la vie politique de la fin des années 1980...

De siècle en siècle, Albert Robida déroule le grand panorama de Paris. Dans cette traversée du temps, il suit la ville au fil de ses métamorphoses—quartiers, rues et horizons changeants—pour en saisir l’allure, les usages et l’esprit.

Edith Wharton tours the length of the front in World War I and describes in vivid detail the trenches, hospitals, and villages....

Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered....

George A. Karp, a Viennese Jewish doctor, tells the story of his family's miraculous escape from Nazi Europe....

Partant du constat que la France semble avoir aujourd'hui renoncé à assumer sa place dans le monde, à maîtriser ses finances publiques, à faire face aux défis économiques et géopolitiques du monde contemporain, à répondre aux tensions qui traversent sa société, etc.

يبدأ الرئيس الفرنسي إيمانويل ماكرون مقدمة كتابه ثورة: داخل فكر أصغر رئيس في تاريخ فرنسا بقوله: "إن مواجهة العالم تجعلنا نستعيد الأمل". ويشدد الرئيس ماكرون على أن...

Carcassonne today is the capital of the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France, about 58 miles from Toulouse....