These two Frenchmen are joined by their blood, as in family ties, but there is a major difference in their characters. Gilles de Retz lived and died in…
Category: French History
Four Murdered Monarchs
Regicide is the killing of a ruling king by his subjects. In a multitude of events throughout history the regicide has been perpetrated by members of the ruler’s…
1805 – 1815
Here for students of history is a plan of events between the naval battle of Trafalgar and the final battle in the European conflict against Napoleon Bonaparte at…
Nancy Mitford on French XVIII doctors
“Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes et non de leurs maladies” (Molière) Here is English authoress Nancy Mitford on seventeenth century French doctors:
Battles at Crècy and Poitiers; and The Jacquerie
The two armed conflicts took place respectively in 1346 and 1356. Ten years separate them, though were similar in tactics and spirit. Both were part of King…
Palmerston and Canning
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston was born in 1784. George Canning was born in 1770. Neither man saw much point in the other, and the difference of…
The U.S.S.R.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (also known as the Soviet Union) used to occupy all the northern part of Asia, and a substantial part of Eastern Europe….
The University
It is an institute of higher education, responsible for taking students from the schools and giving them, through teaching, research and studies, an extended education which may lead…
The Song of Roland & The Battle at the Pass of Roncesvalles
A bit of Romance does no-one any harm, and the story of Roland, his famous horn, and the conflict at Roncesvalles is the very stuff of medieval romance….