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Cadoudal and the Royalist Conspirators Land Beneath the Cliffs of Biville
Royalist leader Georges Cadoudal and his fellow conspirators land beneath the cliffs of Biville, Normandy during the night of 21 August 1803 as the first step in their plan to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte and bring about a Bourbon Restoration...
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Execution of Brunhilda
The gruesome execution of Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia on the orders of King Chlothar II, in 613. Illustration by Alphonse de Neuville on page 123 in the 1883 book The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789 by François...
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Saladin and the Christians of Jerusalem
The Christians of the Holy City Defiling before Saladin by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville
Source: François Guizot (1787-1874 CE), The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789, p. 435.
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Mirabeau Answering to Dreux-Brézé
Etching depicting the famous reply of Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau to a representative of the king who had asked deputies of the Estates-General to disperse on 23 June 1789, engraved by Alphonse Lamotte in 1889 after a model...
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Alphonse Aulard
Alphonse Aulard (l. 1849-1928), photo by Pierre Petit, 1892.
National Library of France, Paris.
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Heidsieck Champagne Poster by Mucha
A detail of a 1901 poster advertising Champagne Heidsieck by Alphonse Mucha.
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Albert de Mun
A photograph of Albert de Mun (l. 1841–1914), an anti-Republican deputy who vigorously opposed the separation of Church and State in France.
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Seventh Crusade
The Seventh Crusade (1248-1254 CE) was led by the French king Louis IX (r. 1226-1270 CE) who intended to conquer Egypt and take over Jerusalem, both then controlled by the Muslim Ayyubid Dynasty. Despite the initial success of capturing Damietta...
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Architects of France's 1901 Law of Associations
The Law of Associations was adopted by the French Parliament on 3 July 1901 to limit the influence of Catholic teaching orders as the first step toward the formal separation of church and state that would follow in 1905. Of 16,904 religious...
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The Slavic Myths
The Slavic Myths, by the historian Noah Charney and the anthropologist and historian Svetlana Slapšak, is a wonderfully written and beautifully illustrated book delving into various Slavic myths, gods, and supernatural figures as well as...