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Marc Lescarbot Histoire De La Nouvelle-France

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Marc Lescarbot (c. 1570–1641) was a French author, poet and lawyer, best known for his Histoire de la Nouvelle-France (1609), based on his expedition to Acadia (1606–1607) and research into French exploration. Considered one of the first great books in the history of Canada, it was printed in three editions, and was translated into German and twice into English. He also wrote numerous poems, including the Théâtre de Neptune, which was performed at Port Royal as the first European theatrical production in North America. Although Bernardino de Sahagún, as well as other Spanish friars already in the 16th century, compose in Mexico several theatrical representations such as Autos Sacramentales. [more]

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Mary Platt Parmele A Short History of France

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Mary Platt was born in Albany, New York and educated in New York. Her first marriage was to J. J. Agnew and her second marriage to Theodore W. Parmele. From 1892 she began contributing philosophical articles and short stories to reviews and magazines, and published Kingdom of the Invisible and Christian Science. However, her most successful books were a number of "Short History" books of various countries written in the late 19th and early 20th century. Her "Short History of..." books included France, England, United States, Germany, Spain, and Italy. [more]

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Mary Platt Parmele A Short History of France

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Mary Platt was born in Albany, New York and educated in New York. Her first marriage was to J. J. Agnew and her second marriage to Theodore W. Parmele. From 1892 she began contributing philosophical articles and short stories to reviews and magazines, and published Kingdom of the Invisible and Christian Science. However, her most successful books were a number of "Short History" books of various countries written in the late 19th and early 20th century. Her "Short History of..." books included France, England, United States, Germany, Spain, and Italy. [more]

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Elizabeth Latimer France In The Nineteenth Century

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Louis XVIII. in 1815 returned to his throne, borne on the shoulders of foreign soldiers, after the fight at Waterloo. The allied armies had a second time entered France to make her pass under the saws and harrows of humiliation. Paris was gay, for money was spent freely by the invading strangers. Sacrifices on the altar of the Emperor were over; enthusiasm for the extension of the great ideas of the Revolution had passed away; a new generation had been born which cared more for material prosperity than for such ideas; the foundation of many fortunes had been laid; mothers who dreaded the conscription, and men weary of war and politics, drew a long breath, and did not regret the loss of that which had animated a preceding generation, in a view of a peace which was to bring wealth, comfort, and tranquillity into their own homes. [more]

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Mary Platt Parmele A Short History of France

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Mary Platt Parmele (July 14, 1843 - May 26, 1911) was an American author and historian. Mary Platt was born in Albany, New York and educated in New York. Her first marriage was to J. J. Agnew and her second marriage to Theodore W. Parmele. From 1892 she began contributing philosophical articles and short stories to reviews and magazines, and published Kingdom of the Invisible and Christian Science. However, her most successful books were a number of "Short History" books of various countries written in the late 19th and early 20th century. Her "Short History of..." books included France, England, United States, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Her style is a flowing narrative that ties together the various historical events of a country in easy to read, comprehensive text, tempered as it were by prevailing social views. [more]

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Stephane Lauzanne Fighting France

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Had you been in Paris late in the afternoon of Monday, August third, nineteen fourteen, you might have [more]

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Edith Wharton Fighting France

From Dunkerque To Belport

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Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight. [more]

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Francis Parkman, Jr. Jr. Pioneers Of France In The New World

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Francis Parkman, Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author [more]

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Francis Parkman, Jr. Pioneers Of France In The New World

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Francis Parkman, Jr. was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie [more]

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Samuel Smiles The Huguenots In france Of 2

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The Persecutions Of The Huguenots Increased at One Time And Relaxed at Another. When France [more]

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