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Au spectacle quasi quotidien des destructions - d'hôtels particuliers, de maisons médiévales consécutives aux transformations de Paris à partir du Second Empire, un certain nombre de personnalités, comme Victor Hugo, ou de simples citoyens prennent la mesure de l'urgence qu'il y a à s'engager en faveur des témoins de l'histoire et de la vie passée de la capitale. Ce mouvement aux motivations historiques et littéraires autant qu'artistiques et architecturales aboutit rapidement à la naissance de nombreuses associations. Il invente à proprement parler la notion de "vieux Paris" - par opposition au Paris moderne qui surgit alors de toutes parts. Cet ouvrage consacré à la naissance...
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Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
"This is the first-ever biography of Thomas Barclay, the first American consul to serve the United States abroad and the man who, in 1786, successfully negotiated our first treaty with an Arab, African, or Muslim nation. It is the story of an Ulster-born immigrant building his fortune as a Philadelphia merchant in international trade, then losing it as he gives priority to his adopted country's fight to gain and build on independence. It tells how, after emigrating to Philadelphia in the 1760s, Barclay became a leading member of the Irish community, a successful merchant/ship owner, and political activist. This biography follows his move to France with his wife and three small children when ...