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Hace 4 días · McPhee then moves to the ‘dangerous game’ (p. 152) played by the revolutionary leader, Brissot and his followers, the Girondins, to unleash a ‘people’s war’, intended to unmask the king’s treachery and to bring liberty to other peoples in Europe.
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Hace 6 días · The Battle of (the) Trebbia (17 [6 OS] – 20 [9 OS] June, 1799) was fought near the rivers of Tidone, Trebbia, and Nure in northern Italy between the joint Russian and Habsburg army under Alexander Suvorov and the Republican French army of Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald.Though French forces were moderately more numerous, the Austro-Russians severely defeated the French ...
Hace 3 días · Expulsion of the Girondins. Annotation. Throughout the spring of 1793, radicals in the Convention, in the Paris Commune, and in the sections struggled for power against Brissot and his allies, known as the "Girondins." They differed over how the Revolution should be affected by popular pressure.
Hace 4 días · By J.P. Brissot de Warville. Paris: Descenne, etc., 1790. Proces de Louis XVI, 1793-1795. Two volumes detailing the events of the French Revolution (dated from 1/1/1793 through 12/24/1795). Each volume contains an assortment of printed documents and handwritten manuscript copies of published articles. De l'esprit des loix. By Charles Montesquieu.
Hace 3 días · The Maple Tree Temple at Matibo, in Italy. The beautiful tree which our engraving represents, is one of the most curious ornaments of a charming estate called Matibo, situated in the neighborhood of Savigliano, in Piedmont. It was planted more than sixty years ago, but it is not more than twenty-five or thirty years since the idea was started of making it grow in the form of a temple, which ...
Hace 6 días · IMMIGRER, verbe intrans. Étymol. et Hist. 1769 subst. masc. immigré ( Ephémérides du Citoyen ou Bibliothèque raisonnée des Sciences morales et politiques, III, p. 75 ds Brunot t. 6, p. 175); 1787 immigrant ( Clavière et Brissot de Warville, De la France et des États-Unis, p. 124 ds Mack. t. 1, p. 187); 1840 immigrer ( Ac. Compl. 1842).
Hace 4 días · Date de sortie 21 avril 1943. Année de production 1943. Un homme entre dans l'auberge d'une abbaye, quelque part en pleine montagne. Il s'appelle Roland Brissot, il a la main gauche gantée et...
