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La Duchesse
A rich portrait of a compelling, complex woman who emerged from a sheltered rural childhood into the fraught, often deadly world of the French royal court and Parisian high society—and who would come to rule them both. Married off at sixteen to a military officer she barely knew, Marie de Vignerot was intended to lead an ordinary aristocratic life, produce heirs, and quietly assist the men in her family rise to prominence. Instead, she became a widow at eighteen and rose to become the indispensable and highly visible right-hand of the most powerful figure in French politics—the ruthless Cardinal Richelieu. Richelieu was her uncle and, as he lay dying, the Cardinal broke with tradition an...
Kindred Spirits
Kindred Spirits takes us inside a remarkable network of Catholic historians, theologians, poets, and activists who pushed against both the far-right surge in interwar Europe and the secularizing tendencies of the leftist movements active in the early to mid-twentieth century. With meticulous attention to the complexity of real lives, Brenna Moore explores how this group sought a middle way anchored in “spiritual friendship”—religiously meaningful friendship understood as uniquely capable of facing social and political challenges. For this group, spiritual friendship was inseparable from resistance to European xenophobia and nationalism, anti-racist activism in the United States, and so...
Uncovering the Germanic Past
This volume suggests how the slow genesis of Merovingian archaeology in France challenged the prevailing views of the population's exclusively Gallic ancestry. A history of the first century of the discipline, Effros' interdisciplinary study looks at the important contributions of medieval archaeological finds to modern French identity.
They Shall Not Pass
“Sumner’s brilliant window onto the French army is a book I cannot recommend highly enough . . . Full of detail and mixed with vivid personal accounts.”—War History Online This graphic collection of first-hand accounts sheds new light on the experiences of the French army during the Great War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotions of soldiers and civilians who were caught up in the most destructive conflict the world had ever seen. Their testimony gives a striking insight into the mentality of the troops and their experience of combat, their emotional ties to their relatives at home, their opinions about their commanders and their fellow soldiers, the appalling ...
Voyage dans l'histoire des Deux-Sèvres
« Mon petit Guillaume, nous allons entreprendre le plus fantastique des voyages, dit grand-père Camille. Nous rencontrerons, comme tu le souhaites, les hommes qui nous ont précédés sur notre sol ; en 3 300 avant J.-C., nous assisterons à la construction du tumulus de Bougon. Nous partagerons, dans l'atelier monétaire de Melle, leur vie, leurs joies et leurs peines. Je ne te cache pas que ce sera un voyage pénible. Nous côtoierons souvent le malheur et la misère qu'apportent les guerres, Du Guesclin et les Anglais à Chizé, les guerres de Vendée et, plus tard, la résistance en Deux-Sèvres. Mais nous apprendrons à mieux connaître - et comprendre - nos ancêtres. Ainsi, nous assisterons, au fil des ans, à la difficile naissance de notre pays. » Voici comment un grand-père et son petit-fils vont traverser l'histoire de notre département, invitant parents et enfants à ce passionnant voyage. De nombreuses photographies, cartes, et frises chronologiques, vous aideront à situer les événements dans le temps et dans l'espace.
