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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 3, From...
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History of Military Orders and Knights - Book 3, From 1150 to 1400

L20210090
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This History of Military Orders or Knights, secular and regular militias, male and female, written in 1721, is the work of several specialist authors on the antiquity of these Orders such as Abbé Giustiniani, R. P. Bonanni, M. Herman, Shoonebek, etc., authenticating: their origins, their foundations, their progress, their way of life, their decline, their...
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Civil and Military Architecture from the Middle Ages to...
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Civil and Military Architecture from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century

L20210059
€32.23
Civil and Military Architecture is a pioneering work of the nineteenth century, one of the very first to classify manor houses, house façades and fortified castles, and to organise the history of architecture into chronological periods. Turning the pages amid the ever-present illustrations, the reader travels through the history of France and perceives...
Torpedoes
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Torpedoes

L20210058
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In this work, Eugène Hennebert, a retired lieutenant-colonel of the Engineers, traces the history of torpedoes from antiquity — including certain forms of Greek fire — through to his own era, with the first torpedo boats and submarines. With the aid of numerous illustrations, he describes the various models invented, the means of deploying them and the...
Italians in the Service of France, 1499–1630 –...
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Italians in the Service of France, 1499–1630 – Renaissance & Thirty Years' War

L20210041
€18.96
Italians in the Service of France – Renaissance & Thirty Years' War Discover in this new Compagnie d'Elite cahier the genesis of the integration of Italian troops into the order of battle of the French armies. From the origins in 1499, through the Gendarmes of Prince Ludovico Gonzaga and the bands of Piedmont, to the fighting in 1629–1630 during the...
An Untold History of France in 100 Maps An Untold History of France in 100 Maps 2
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An Untold History of France in 100 Maps

L20210017
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The history of France mapped, from prehistory to the present day, and narrated by Jean Sévillia. In 5 parts — " Origins ", " The Kingdom of France ", " The French Nation ", " Facing the Trials of the 20th Century " and " Towards the France of Tomorrow " — and in 100 previously unpublished and richly detailed maps, from the principal prehistoric sites to...
History of Wine in France – From Antiquity to the Revolution
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History of Wine in France – From Antiquity to the Revolution

L20200236
€7.54 €15.07
Where and when did the very first drops of wine pass down a thirsty throat? What could the taste of the "nectar of the gods" in Antiquity possibly have been? Some 2,600 years ago, our ancestors living on the land of present-day Marseille discovered wine with delight. Shortly afterwards, the Gaulish elites began importing it in considerable quantities. But...
LES BLANCS-SABLONS LE CONQUET 25 April 1513 – The Franco-Breton Navy Repels the Royal Navy
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LES BLANCS-SABLONS LE CONQUET 25 April 1513 – The Franco-Breton Navy Repels the Royal Navy

L20200100
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Every summer, the Blancs-Sablons beach at Le Conquet draws thousands of tourists in search of fresh air and invigorating bathing. How many know that five centuries ago, a fierce naval battle was fought off that beach, between English sailors and French and Breton sailors? And that the reddened waters of the Iroise Sea washed dozens of corpses onto the...
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