Marshal Blücher
Erich Eyck looks at the battles fought - and won - by Napoleon's Prussian nemisis.
Erich Eyck looks at the battles fought - and won - by Napoleon's Prussian nemisis.
Denys Sutton sees the revolutionary work of French artists reflected in the Spring of Nations.
G.H.L. LeMay sets the unique military features of Napoleonic France against those of the eighteenth century at large.
The French poet was ordered to leave his city on January 3rd, 1463.
F.M. Godfrey describes the life of an important late medieval painter of royal subjects.
D.W. Brogan pays a historical visit to the city of light in the first half of the twentieth century.
W.R. Jeudwine unearths the 17th century roots of France's age-old struggle for influence and power in the province of Lorraine.
Julian Piggott shows how, with the help of a puppet state on the Rhine, France between 1919 and 1923 attempted to solve the perpetual problem of her eastern frontier.
On October 23, 1812, the Emperor Napoleon, campaigning in Russia, was for six hours threatened with dethronement by a theatrical coup d'etat back in Paris. Godfrey LeMay describes what happened.
At the dawn of the 19th century, Napoleon Bonaparte liquidated the French empire in America, selling the vast Bourbon heritage along the banks of the Mississippi to the United States. Why?