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Œuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome IVNapoléon Bonaparte Oeuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome IV LIVRE CINQUIÈME EMPIRE 1806 Munich, le 6 janvier 18061.Au sénat conservateurSénateurs,«La paix a été conclue à Presbourg et ratifiée à Vienne entre moi et l'empereur d'Autriche. Je voulais, dans une séa...

Œuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome VNapoléon Bonaparte Oeuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome V CAMPAGNE DE RUSSIE LIVRE SEPTIÈME Gumbinnen, 20 juin 1812.Premier bulletin de la grande arméeA la fin de 1810, la Russie changea de système politique; l'esprit anglais reprit son influence; l'ukase sur le...

Hortense. Makers of History SeriesJohn S. C. Abbott Hortense / Makers of History Series PREFACE The French Revolution was perhaps as important an event as has occurred in the history of nations. It was a drama in three acts. The first was the Revolution itself, properly so called, with its awful ...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 01Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 01 INTRODUCTION No library of Court documents could pretend to be representative which ignored the famous "Memoirs" of the Duc de Saint-Simon. They sta...

Eminent VictoriansLytton Strachey Eminent Victorians Preface THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unatta...

Great AstronomersRobert S. Ball Great Astronomers PREFACE It has been my object in these pages to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as clearly as circumstanc...

Biographies of Working MenGrant Allen Biographies of Working Men PREFACEMy acknowledgments are due to Dr. Smiles's "Lives of the Engineers," "Life of the Stephensons," and "Life of a Scotch Naturalist;" to Lady Eastlake's "Life of Gibson;" to Mr. Holden's "Life of Sir William Herschel;" to M. Seu...

Napoleon BonaparteJohn S. C. Abbott Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon, finding his proffers of peace rejected by England with contumely and scorn, and declined by Austria, now prepared, with his wonted energy, to repel the assaults of the allies. As he sat in his cabinet at the Tuileries, the thunders ...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. Volume 15Duc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Volume 15 CHAPTER CXIII Few events of importance had taken place during my absence in Spain. Shortly after my return, however, a circumstance occurred which m...

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency. CompleteDuc de Saint-Simon Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency – Complete INTRODUCTION No library of Court documents could pretend to be representative which ignored the famous “Memoirs” of the Duc de Saint-Simon. They stand...