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Author: Parke Godwin
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Author: Parke Godwin
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Author: Gérard Bailloud
Publisher: Noyes Data Corporation/Noyes Publications
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Author: Pierre D Bognon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483496740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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The first thirteen centuries in France saw a new religion, a new language, new learning institutions and the beginnings of a great nation. The region evolved from an amalgamation of warring Gallic tribes to the most powerful kingdom in Europe and the secular arm of the Church of Rome. Much of these first centuries are unfairly regarded as The Dark Ages. There were, propitiously, redeeming periods of light during these times, strongly influenced by an ever-present Church and the will of extraordinary leaders. Many things we experience or hear about today and many places we visit are symbolic markers of the history of France during that period--they have been called ""lieux de memoire."" If you are not familiar with this history and these lieux, that should not prevent you from enjoying la belle France, but if you anchor your discovery in a historical context, your experience will be more profound and memorable. Hence this book.
Author: Jules Michelet
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Author: Miss A. B. Edwards
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Thomas Wright
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Author: Parke Godwin
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ISBN: 9781502399465
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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From the intro:"The country at the western extremity of Europe which is now named France was originally named in the language of its principal race, Gael-iachd, or the land of the Gaels, from which term the Greeks probably derived their Galatia and Kellika and the Romans their Gallia. It was defined by a remarkable series of natural boundaries-by two large oceans, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic by two lofty chains of mountains, the Alps and the Pyrenees and by the most beautiful river of Europe, the Rhine.Being in length and breadth nearly equal, about six hundred and fifty English miles in one direction, and five hundred and seventy in the other, it comprised an extent of territory larger by one fourth than that of modern France. Of the descriptive geography of this territory little was known to the ancients, whose random notices inform us that, for the most part, it was covered by forests and marshes. The sea-coasts north and west were the least inviting parts. In the peninsula which is now Brittany, the rough and frowning cliffs lent a gloomy grandeur to the scenery, but as these fell away at once into ranges of low sand-hills on one side, and into vast heaths and fens on the other, the aspect of the country became flat and monotonous. It was more picturesque on the Mediterranean shores, which were, however, exposed to fearful and desolating winds in the spring to the circus whose abrupt and choleric gusts shook down houses, and in the summer to the sultry auian laden with the miasms of Africa. But the beauties of the interior, described as presenting the happiest intermixture of high and low land, compensated for the defects that might be found elsewhere. The Alps on the east and the Pyrenees at the south, sending forth the great secondary spurs of Jura and the Yosges, of the Cevennes and the mountains of Auvergne, formed a series of magnificent valleys, through which many noble streams ran, with various beauty and in opposite courses, to the seas. The swift Ehone, gathered from the meltings of the Alps, and passing hurriedly through Lake Leman, shot southward to the Mediterranean; the Garonne, after breaking away from the unwooded slopes of the Pyrenees, was gradually swollen and propelled by the tributary waters of the Tarn, the Lot, and the Dordogne, till it broadened at last into a great arm of the Atlantic; farther inland, the Loire and the Seine turned their petulant currents to the same ocean; while the lordly Ehine, taking its departure from nearly the same mountain sources as the Ehone, reversed its direction, and roamed the wild borders of Germany in search of a wintry outlet to the northern gulfs."
Author: Thomas Wright
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Author: Jules Michelet
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Author: Patrick J. Geary
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195044584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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In this innovative new study, Patrick Geary rejects traditional notions of European history to present the Merovingian period (ca. 400-750) as an integral part of Late Antiquity. Drawing on current scholarship in archaeology, cultural history, historical ethnography, and other fields, the author formulates an original interpretation not only of Merovingian history but of the Romano-barbarian world from which it arose. Mapping the complex interactions of a volatile era, he carefully traces the Romanization of barbarians and the barbarization of Romans that ultimately made these populations indistinguishable. (BARNES & NOBLE).
