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Les réfugiés jacobites dans la France du XVIIIe siècle
Etudie les conditions d'insertion des jacobites dans les élites dirigeantes de la société française sur le plan civil, social, matrimonial ou professionnel. Analyse leur influence sur la mentalité, le comportement du second ordre et l'apparition d'une noblesse d'affaires dynamique.
War, Government and Power in Late Medieval France
The essays in this volume portray the public life of late medieval France as that country established its position as a leader of western European society in the early modern world. A central theme is the contribution made by contemporary writers, chroniclers and commentators, such as Jean Froissart, William Worcester and Philippe de Commynes, to our understanding of the past. Who were they? What picture of their times did they present? Were their works intended to influence their contemporaries and what success did they enjoy? Other contributions deal with the exercise of political power, the relationship between the court and those in authority in far-flung reaches of the kingdom, and the role and status of the death penalty as deterrent, punishment and means of achieving justice.
Corsairs and Navies, 1600-1760
Two societies, two conceptions of justice, collaborated and collided when French forces stormed Cartagena of the Indies in May 1697. For their commander, the baron de Pointis, a naval captain in the mould of Drake, this bloody if strategically pointless success fulfilled a long-postponed design "that might be both honourable and advantageous", with ships lent and soldiers (but not seamen) paid by the King, who in return would take the Crown's usual one-fifth interest in such "preis de vaisseaux", the remaining costs falling on private subscribers, in this case no less than 666 of them, headed by courtiers, financiers, naval contractors and officers of both pen and sword.' According to Pointis, peace rumours restricted the flow of advances and the expedition, nearly 4,000 strong when it sailed out of Brest, was weaker than he had planned, especially if it should prove difficult to use the ships' crews ashore.
Les Noms de lieux bretons de Haute-Bretagne
Cet ouvrage reprend un travail de thèse, soutenu en juin 1988, avec quelques compléments et extensions. La zone étudiée, la Haute Bretagne, représente plus de la moitié de la Bretagne, et nos rois et ducs y avaient la majorité de leurs résidences (tel le château de Nantes). Beaucoup d'événements historiques majeurs se sont déroulés en Haute Bretagne, et lorsque les Bretons s'y sont installés, ils ont laissé leur empreinte dans les noms de lieux, y compris dans les grandes villes de Rennes et Nantes, attestant bien les racines bretonnes de la région. Grâce à l'emploi de moyens informatiques, il a été possible de mieux reconnaître les toponymes bretons parmi les noms de ha...
