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The History of France

by W. Scott Haine, John E. Findling, Frank W. Thackeray. 264 pgs.

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Contributors:

   W. Scott Haine, John E. Findling, Frank W. Thackeray

Publisher:

   Greenwood Press

Place of Publication:

  Westport, CT  

Publication Year:

  2000
Subjects:   France--History, France--History--Chronology
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books on: (France History) OR (France History Chronology)  - 56082 results

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The History of France
Book by W. Scott Haine, Frank W. Thackeray, John E. Findling; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: France--History, France--History--Chronology
...1096-2905 Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-313-30328-2 alk. paper 1. France--History. 2. France--History--Chronology. I. Title. II. Series. DC35.H35 2000 944--dc21 99--055229 British Library Cataloguing in Publication...
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The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620
Book by Jonathan L. Pearl; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999
Subjects: Demonology--France--History--16th Century, Demonology--France--History--16th Century--Sources, Demonology--France--History--17th Century, Demonology--France--History--17th Century--Sources, Demonology--Political Aspects--France--History--16th Century, Demonology--Political Aspects--France--History--17th Century, Witchcraft--France--History--16th Century, Witchcraft--France--History--17th Century
...Politics and government 16 th century. 6. France Politics and government 17 th century. 7. Witchcraft France History 16 th century. I. Title. BF1517.F5P42 1999 133.4094409031 C98-930430-2 1999 WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS...
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Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830
Book by Sheryl Kroen; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Democracy--France--History--19th Century, France--History--July Revolution, 1830--Theater And The Revolution, France--History--Restoration, 1814-1830--Political Aspects, Legitimacy Of Governments--France, Monarchy--France--History--19th Century
Politics and Theater STUDIES ON THE HISTORY OF SOCIETY AND CULTURE Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, Editors...Politics and Theater The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815 1830 Sheryl Kroen UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS...
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Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France
Book by Tony James; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Creative Ability--France--History--19th Century, Dreams--France--History--19th Century, Hallucinations And Illusions--France--History--19th Century, Mental Illness--France--History--19th Century, Psychology And Literature--France--History--19th Century
...madness in nineteenth-century France / Tony James Includes bibliographical references and index 1. Dreams- France-History-19th century. 2. Creative ability- France-History-19th century. 3. Mental illness-France- History-19th century. 4...
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The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
Book by Suzanne Desan; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Domestic Relations--France--History--18th Century, Family--France--History--18th Century, Family--Political Aspects--France, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Women
...4. France History Revolution, 1789 1799 Women. 5. France History Revolution, 1789 1799. I. Title. II. Series. HQ623. D45 2004...Sisters: Inheritance Law and Gender Politics in Revolutionary France, French Historical Studies 20 1997 : 597 634, and are...
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Magical Emasculation, Popular Anticlericalism, and the Limits of the Reformation in Western France Circa 1590
Journal article by Kevin C. Robbins; Journal of Social History, Vol. 31, 1997
Subjects: Anti-clericalism--History, Clergy--Public opinion, France--History, Magic--Religious aspects
...Rochelles bibliographic history by Louis Desgraves...Rochelle and the rest of France. The Traites overall...des elites dans la France moderne (Paris, 1978...compendium devoted to the history of anticlericalism...guide to the social history of La Rochelles Reformation...Histoire de la France religieuse, 4 vols...
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Penelope's Web: Francesco Primaticcio's Epic Revision at Fontainebleau
Journal article by Giancarlo Fiorenza; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Architecture, French--Analysis, Architecture, French--History, Fontainebleau, France--History, French architecture--Analysis, French architecture--History, Primaticcio, Francesco--Criticism and interpretation, Primaticcio, Francesco--Works
...desire to compare France and its monarchs...rulers throughout history. (32) Ulysses power...Bibliotheque nationale de France (1994), 95-107. Wardropper...Weinberg, Bernard. A History of Literary Criticism...years earlier to France." (80) Cropper, 1995...is Plinys Natural History (36.35.85-87), retold...
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Living Memory: French Intellectuals and the Experience of Phoney War, 1939-1940
Journal article by Martyn Cornick; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 27, 1997
Subjects: France--History, French history, French literature--Political aspects, Intellectuals--Political activity, World War I, 1914-1918--Social aspects
...little-considered aspect of the history of World War Two...1939 and the Fall of France in June 1940. It...armies swept across France in May and June 1940...period of intellectual history, an element neglected...et ses poetes. I. France 1940-1944 (Marabout...European cultural history, see Winter, J...
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Fabri De Peiresc's Quest for a Method to Calculate Terrestrial Longitude
Journal article by Jane T. Tolbert; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999
Subjects: Fabri de Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude--Conduct of life, France--History, Longitude--Measurement
...to todays natural history museums) and meeting...returned to the South of France in 1623, dividing...Modern France," French History 2 (1988): 131-151...Seventeenth-Century France (Oxford, 1986...Seventeenth Century France: The Innovations...1631" Journal of the History of Astronomy 7 (1976...
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Visions of the Postwar: The Politics of Memory and Expectation in 1940s France
Journal article by Jon Cowans; History and Memory, Vol. 10, 1998
Subjects: Historiography, History, History--Philosophy
...Postwar The Politics of Memory and Expectation in 1940s France JON COWANS As historians have shifted their attention in...historians have thought less -- and less critically -- about the history of expectations for the future than about the history of memory...
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magazine articles on: (France History) OR (France History Chronology)  - 8111 results

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Projecting a Greater France
Magazine article by Martin Evans; History Today, Vol. 50, February 2000
Subjects: Exhibitions--France, France--History
...defined. FOR FURTHER READING: Robert Aldrich, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion (Macmillan, 1996); Malek Alloula...Contemporaine du Maghreb (Fayard, 1994); Herman Lebovics, True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity 1900- 1945 (Cornell University...Publishing, 1998). Martin Evans is lecturer in French History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of The...
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Thailand's War with Vichy France
Magazine article by George Paloczi-Horvath; History Today, Vol. 45, March 1995
Subjects: France--History, Japan--History, Thailand--History, World War, 1939-1945--Thailand
...Co-Prosperity Sphere under their imperial control. The conflict between Thailand and Vichy France cannot be adequately understood without reference to the long history of enmity between the Thais on the one hand and the French and the Vietnamese on the...
3.
Louis Napoleon Elected President of France
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 48, December 1998
Subjects: France--History, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French--Political activity
Louis Napoleon elected President of France by Richard Cavendish December 10th, 1848 Prince...votes, he won one of the most remarkable victories in French history, though he had never held public office or distinguished himself...
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The Globalisation of Sport: Mike Cronin and Richard Holt, Discover the Roots of International Sport in France
Magazine article by Mike Cronin, Richard Holt; History Today, Vol. 53, July 2003
Subjects: France--History, International Federation of Association Football--History, Olympics--History, Tour de France (Bicycle race)--History
...discover the roots of international sport in France. by Mike Cronin , Richard...Have we really arrived at a time in history where we can talk about a commonly understood...Hare and H. Dauncey (eds), The Tour de France (Cass, 2003); J. Maguire, Global Games...at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University...
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May 23 1059: Philip I Crowned King of France
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 59, May 2009
Subjects: Kings and rulers--History, Kings--History, Philip I, King of France--History
May 23 1059: Philip I Crowned King of France. by Richard Cavendish The name Philip was Greek and...kept, but in 1107 Pope Paschal met Philip and his son Louis in France and described them as very pious sons of the Holy See. His critics...
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CYCLING: Armstrong on the Cusp of Tour De France History
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 23, 2004
Subjects: Armstrong, Lance
CYCLING: Armstrong on the Cusp of Tour De France History. Byline: SCOTT DOUGAL LANCE ARMSTRONG gave another...demonstration of his total superiority over the Tour de France by sprinting to his fourth stage win of this years event...
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France Scraps History to Shape Post-Cold War Fighting Force
Newspaper article by Andrew Borowiec; The Washington Times, March 11, 1997
Subjects: France, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
France scraps history to shape post-Cold War fighting force by Andrew Borowiec PARIS - When Louis Sauvet learned that "his regiment" was...
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Rugby Union: FLOP HENRY'S HISTORY NOW; iRB RUGBY WORLD CUP 2007 FRANCE FRANCE 20 NEW ZEALAND 18
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), October 8, 2007
Rugby Union: FLOP HENRYS HISTORY NOW; iRB RUGBY WORLD CUP 2007 FRANCE FRANCE 20 NEW ZEALAND 18. NEW ZEALAND coach Graham Henry is to pay with his job following the All Blacks shock World Cup exit...
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Travel: France: A Potted History; Fairy Builders, Shaved Teddy Bears and Dead Italian Monks: Must Be GEOFF HILL Continuing His Pilgrimage by Sports Car to Santiago De Compostela
Newspaper article by Geoff Hill; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), July 15, 1999
Travel: France: A Potted History; Fairy Builders, Shaved Teddy...respectively. Also home of Frances weirdest church, Notre Dame...were unclean. Pons, a brief history: built Middle Ages, destroyed...Freephone 0500 222222. In France he was a guest of the French...
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The French Hitler; It's an Astonishing Reversal of History - the Man Who Created Modern France Is Now Being Denounced by His Own People as a Sadistic Racist Whose Genocidal Mania (and Incompetence) Caused the Death of Millions
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 10, 2005
...Hitler; Its an Astonishing Reversal of History - the Man Who Created Modern France Is Now Being Denounced by His Own People...greatest military hero of our long island history was toasted - often in rum. What a contrast...modern historians. Indeed, a new book in France likens his rule to that of Adolf Hitler...
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History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of cities and civilizations. In 12th-century Europe secular history writing emerged, shown in the work of Geoffroi de Villehardouin...affected historians, and in one sense Niccolo Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini followed in the steps of Greek and Roman historians...
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France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...pop. 60,656,000), 211,207 sq mi (547,026 sq km), W Europe. France is bordered by the English Channel (N), the Atlantic Ocean...are represented in the national government by the mayor. History Ancient Gaul to Feudalism Some of the earliest anthropological...
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Paris , City, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Situated in the center of the Paris basin (see Ile-de-France ), and only 90 mi (145 km) from the English Channel, the city...eastern part of the right bank is the Museum of the Art and History of Judaism, the Place de la Bastille and the Bastille Opera...
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France, Anatole
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FRANCE, ANATOLE anatol fraNs, pseud...allegorical novel satirizing French history. His early fiction was characterized...Tylden-Wright (1967); B. Cerf, Anatole France: The Degeneration of a Great Artist...Segur, Conversations with Anatole France (tr. 1926); J. M. Pouquet, The Last...
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Charles VIII , King of France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the introduction of the Italian Renaissance in France. The history of his reign was recorded by his contemporary, Philippe de Comines . See J. S. C. Bridge, A History of France from the Death of Louis XI, Vol. I-II (1922 24...
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