Harvard University Press, August 1984. Trade Paperback. The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom, denounced du Tilh, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. This book, by the..... More
Penguin Classics, July 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich..... More
Penguin Classics, July 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich..... More
Harvest Books, April 1988. Trade Paperback. In 1925 Janet Flanner began dispatching her famous New Yorker "Letter from Paris, " from which most of the pieces in this collection are drawn. Together, they give an incomparable view of French political, social, and cultural life in the years between the electrifying..... More
Princeton University Press, 1969. Reprint. Trade Paperback. The description for this book, The Coming of the French Revolution, will be forthcoming. Octavo. 2nd Princeton Paperback printing. [233 pages0. More
Peter Lang Publishing, September 1995. Hardcover. Andre Morellet (1727-1819), a representative but neglected figure of the eighteenth-century republic of letters, contributed to the "Encyclopedie" and collaborated with royal ministers. He frequented Parisian salons and supported liberty of conscience and commerce. He not only participated in the campaign to reform the..... More
