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  • The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century

    by Charles Bastide ...
    Of late there have appeared on the literary relations of England and France some excellent books, foremost of which may be mentioned, besides the now classical works of M. Jusserand, Dr. A. H. Upham's French Influence in English Literature and Sir Sidney Lee's French Renaissance in England. The drift of the main argument set forth in those several volumes may be pointed out in a few words. Up to ... Read more

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  • The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century

    by Charles Bastide ...
    "The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century" by Charles Bastide explores the complex diplomatic and cultural relationships between England and France during a pivotal era. The book delves into the political maneuvers, alliances, and conflicts that shaped the interactions between these two nations. Bastide meticulously examines key events and figures, providing insights into how their ... Read more

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    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his natural son, Philip, from 1737 onwards, providing him with instruction in etiquette and the worldly arts. Praised in their day as a ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

    by Charles Mackay ...
    First published in 1841, this history chronicles the popular foolishness of Mackay's day. It is divided into three broad categories, including 'National Delusions,' 'Peculiar Follies,' and 'Philosophical Delusions.' The author discusses and usually debunks a wide variety of subjects and events. These include economic bubbles like the tulip craze of Holland in 1637 or the Mississippi Company ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of My Life

    by Edward Gibbon ...
    Edward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were posthumously edited by his friend Lord Sheffield, and remain an astonishing portrait of a rich, full life. Recounting Gibbon's sickly childhood in London, his disappointment with an Oxford 'steeped in port and prejudice', ... Read more

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  • The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford (Complete)

    by Horace Walpole ...
    You were both so entertained with the old stories I told you one evening lately, of what I recollected to have seen and heard from my childhood of the courts of King George the First, and of his son the Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Second, and of the latter's princess, since Queen Caroline; and you expressed such wishes that I would commit those passages (for they are scarce worthy of ... Read more

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  • The Heptameron, Volume 1

    by Queen Marguerite of Navarre, Marguerite de Navarre ...
    With 23 illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "The Heptameron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days just as The Decameron does, but at ... Read more

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  • A History of Paris

    by Thomas Okey ...
    The mediæval scribe in the fulness of a divinely-revealed cosmogony is wont to begin his story at the creation of the world or at the confusion of tongues, to trace the building of Troy by the descendants of Japheth, and the foundation of his own native city by one of the Trojan princes made a fugitive in Europe by proud Ilion's fall. Such, he was very sure, was the origin of Padua, founded by ... Read more

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  • The Tales Of The Heptameron

    by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre ...
    It is probable that every one who has had much to do with the study of literature has conceived certain preferences for books which he knows not to belong absolutely to the first order, but which he thinks to have been unjustly depreciated by the general judgment, and which appeal to his own tastes or sympathies with particular strength. One of such books in my own case is THE HEPTAMERON of ... Read more

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  • Women of Mediaeval France

    by Pierce Butler ...
    "Women of Mediaeval France" by Pierce Butler explores the multifaceted roles and experiences of women during the medieval period in France. The book delves into the social, economic, and cultural contexts that shaped women's lives, highlighting their contributions to society despite the constraints of a patriarchal system. Through a careful examination of historical records, literature, and art, ... Read more

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  • History of the Rise of the Huguenots (Complete)

    by Henry Martyn Baird ...
    The period of about half a century with which these volumes are concerned may properly be regarded as the formative age of the Huguenots of France. It included the first planting of the reformed doctrines, and the steady growth of the Reformation in spite of obloquy and persecution, whether exercised under the forms of law or vented in lawless violence. It saw the gathering and the regular ... Read more

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  • Books Fatal to Their Authors

    by P. H. Ditchfield ...
    This edition features a linked Table of ContentsCONTENTSPREFACE.DETAILED CONTENTS.BOOKS FATAL TO THEIR AUTHORS.CHAPTER I. THEOLOGY.CHAPTER II. FANATICS AND FREE-THINKERS.CHAPTER III. ASTROLOGY, ALCHEMY, AND MAGIC.CHAPTER IV. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY.CHAPTER V. HISTORY.CHAPTER VI. POLITICS AND STATESMANSHIP.CHAPTER VII. SATIRE.CHAPTER VIII. POETRY.CHAPTER IX. DRAMA AND ROMANCE.CHAPTER X. BOOKSEL... ... Read more

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