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Excerpt from A Lady of the Old Regime The Entry of the Little Infanta into Paris The Meeting of the Infanta and the King The Crown of Louis XV. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original...

Excerpt from Symbol and Satire in the French Revolution More interesting in their wealth of symbols than even the speeches and writings of the time are the pictorial satires and allegories, great numbers of which have been preserved. They are documents of real historical importance and have hitherto been much neglected. They reveal the spirit of the time as no mere printed words could ever do. They are products of this special revolution, for...

The documents chosen cover the modest period of nine hundred years of the world's history, and vary in length from one page to one hundred and twenty! Law, religion, politics, and general civilization are among the topics chosen for illustration."Such documents as I have chosen are the very framework of history. How little are they known, even by those who have perused volumes of references to and comments upon them!"Translated and Edited by E...

Excerpt from Germany's Fighting MachineLast to a friendly fog. The great shipping company, with its nearly two hundred vessels, was out of the run.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original fo...

Excerpt from Select Historical Documents: Of the Middle AgesHE following short notes concerning the documents here translated, are not intended in any way to be exhaustive. They will fully answer their purpose if they prove to be suggestive, if they seem to make the pieces they refer to desirable and interesting reading. The works Of Gneist and Stubbs will furnish all the general knowledge that is necessary as a ground work.About the Publisher...

Excerpt from Side Lights on English History: Being Extracts From Letters, Papers, and Diaries of the Past Three Centuries All hail to the new spirit that is permeating the methods of teaching and studying of history, in New England especially, hut also as far as the influence of the thousand-membered American Historical Society extends. It is the veritable spirit of the Renaissance, the spirit that made those fifteenth century scholars hunt f...

Excerpt from A History of Germany in the Middle Ages For it is an experiment. Apart from the question as to whether or not I am capable of putting life and spirit into the vast body of facts and events that concern the past of so enormous a political creation as Germany, I have been assured from competent side that there is not sufficient interest in the subject to warrant a work like the present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publish...

Excerpt from A Short History of Germany, Vol. 1 If we look for striking personalities and events, the reigns of Frederick the Great and Of William I. Were Of supreme importance to Europe, and, as was not the case with Louis XIV. And Napoleon, their acquisitions were of a permanent character. All in all, it has seemed to me that I could engage in no more thankful occupation than in writing the history of Germany the more so as German treatment...

Excerpt from A Short History of Germany, Vol. 2 Rending complaints often found their way to Berlin. A formal request was once sent that Frederick William would consider, not his own necessities, but the bare, actual possibilities of the province. If the elector was inexorable to such appeals, it was not from lack of sympathy. The founder of the greatness of the Prussian state knew well from personal experience what poverty and hardship meant....

Blucher And The Uprising Of Prussia Against Napoleon: 1806-1815 BY ERNEST F. HENDERSON PH.D. (BERLIN), L.H.D. (TRINITY) BLUCHER is chiefly known to English readers as the man who came to Wellington's aid at Waterloo. The object of the present volume is to show that he had a separate existence of his own and performed other great deeds in the cause that are equally deserving of praise. Strange that he has never been made the subject of an Engli...

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Excerpt from Blücher and the Uprising of Prussia Against Napoleon, 1806-1815Oi great use to me has been a new life of Blucher in two volumes by von Unger, but the earlier lives by Blasendorf and by von Wigger are not altogether superseded. Von Unger gives a good workin g bibliography, Which can be supplemented from the lists and the reviews that appear at intervals in the F orschungm zur B randenburg Preussischen Geschichte and in the historic...

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