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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-537) and index.
• Pt. 1. The way over Voilà Paris! Morse at the Louvre The medicals — pt. 2. American sensations Change at hand A city transformed Bound to succeed — pt. 3. Under siege Madness Paris again The Farragut Genius in abundance Au revoir, Paris!
• This is the inspiring and, until now, untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of success. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America future abolitionist Charles Sumner staunch friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse (who saw something in France that gave him the idea for the telegraph) pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk medical student Oliver Wendell Holmes writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Henry James Harriet Beecher Stowe, seeking escape from the notoriety Uncle Tom’s Cabin had brought her sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent and American ambassador Elihu Washburne, who bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris and even more atrocious nightmare of the Commune. His vivid account in his diary of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris (drawn on here for the first time) is one readers will never forget. Nearly all of these Americans, whatever their troubles, spent many of the happiest days and nights of their lives in Paris.–From publisher description.
• McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris.

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• Americans — France — Paris — History — 19th century.
• Intellectuals — France — Paris — History — 19th century.
• Artists — France — Paris — History — 19th century.
• Authors, American — France — Paris — History — 19th century.
• Physicians — France — Paris — History — 19th century.
• Americans — France — Paris — Biography.
• Paris (France) — Intellectual life — 19th century.
• Paris (France) — Biography.
• Paris (France) — Relations — United States.
• United States — Relations — France — Paris.

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• First published in 1970 by Hill and Wang in New York. This edition published in 2013 –Title page verso.
• Daniel Singer is the left’s most brilliant arsonist. He sets ablaze whole forests of desiccated cliches about ‘the end of history’ and ‘the triumph of the market’ in order to light the way forward for the next generation of radical thinkers and activists. -Mike Davis An essential firsthand account of the May 1968 upheaval in France. — Provided by publisher.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Riots — France — Paris.
• France — Politics and government — 1958-
• Student movements — France — Paris — History — 20th century.
• France. fast (OCoLC)fst01204289
• France — Paris. fast (OCoLC)fst01205283
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• Regeneration, 1799-1802 — The invention of a saviour — ‘Perfect glory and solid peace’ — Italy and the consolidation of power — Peace — The politics of fusion — Empire, 1802-1804 — The conservative turn — The end of the revolution — ‘The first throne of the universe’ — Citizen Emperor — Conquest, 1805-1807 — ‘The rage of conquest and ambition’ — The Grand Empire — Zenith — ‘The devil’s business’ — Crucible, 1808-1811 — The desolate father — The tide turns — Bourgeois emperor, universal emperor — ‘A very stormy year’ — Hubris, 1812 — The Second Polish War — ‘The struggle of obstinacy’ — Destiny forsaken — The adventurer, 1813-1814 — ‘The enemy of the human race’ — The deliverance of Europe — The naked emperor — Sovereign of Elba — The second coming, 1815 — The saviour returns — A parody of empire — Epilogue.
• In this second volume of Philip Dwyer’s authoritative biography on one of history’s most enthralling leaders, Napoleon, now 30, takes his position as head of the French state after the 1799 coup. Dwyer explores the young leader’s reign, complete with mistakes, wrong turns, and pitfalls, and reveals the great lengths to which Napoleon goes in the effort to fashion his image as legitimate and patriarchal ruler of the new nation. — Publisher website.

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• Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
• France — Kings and rulers — Biography.
• France — History — Revolution, 1789-1799 — Biography.
• Emperors — France — Biography.
• France — Politics and government — 1789-1815.
• Europe — History — 1789-1815.

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• July 1914 — Georges: the defiant — The Thibaults — Shifting ground — Edouard: the hesitant — August 1939.

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• France — History — 1914-1940.
• France — Politics and government — 1914-1940.
• France — Intellectual life — 20th century.
• World War, 1914-1918 — Influence.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 498-514) and index.
• The European state system and the Napoleonic Wars — The collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, 1812-14 — The Congress of Vienna, 1814-15 — The birth of the congress system, 1815-18 — The alliance in operation, 1819-20 — Rift and reunion, 1820-22 — The twilight of the congress system, 1822-23 — The legacy of the congress system : success or failure?
• The Vienna Congress marked one of the turning points in diplomatic history – an attempt to create an ‘international order’ to secure peace for the 19th century. Mark Jarrett argues that the Congress in fact marked the beginning of the end for the Ancien Regime, and has had an enormous influence, right through to present day.

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• Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)
• Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 — Treaties.
• Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 — Diplomatic history.
• Europe — History — 1815-1848.
• Europe — Politics and government — 1815-1848.

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• First published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 — Influence.
• Christian saints — France — Biography.

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• In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic’s formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America. When the French Revolution broke out, these men had been among its leaders. They were liberal aristocrats and ardent Anglophiles, convinced of the superiority of the British system of monarchy and constitution. They also idealized the new American republic, which seemed to them an embodiment of the Enlightenment ideals they celebrated. But soon the Revolutionary movement got ahead of them, and they found themselves chased across the Atlantic. François Furstenberg follows these five men — Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Napoleon’s future foreign minister theorist/reformer Rochefoucauld, the duc de Liancourt Louis-Marie Vicomte de Noailles Moreau de Saint-Méry and Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, Comte Volney — as they left their homes and families in France, crossed the Atlantic, and landed in Philadelphia — then America’s capital, its principal port, and by far its most cosmopolitan city and the home of the wealthiest merchants and financiers. The book vividly reconstructs their American adventures, following along as they integrated themselves into the city and its elite social networks, began speculating on backcountry lands, and eventually became enmeshed in Franco-American diplomacy. Through their stories, we see some of the most famous events of early American history in a new light, from the diplomatic struggles of the 1790s to the Haitian Revolution to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. By the end of this period, the United States was on its way to becoming a major global power. Through this small circle of men, we find new ways to understand the connections between U.S. and world history, and gain fresh insight into Am
• Strange reunions: an introduction — Pt. 1: The United States speaks French. France comes to America Settling in America : Philadelphia speaks French Franco-American networks and polite Atlantic spaces — Pt. 2: The French Revolution in the West. Transatlantic land speculation France in the Mississippi Valley The émigrés return to France, France returns to America — A conclusion: Empty houses.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• France — History — Revolution, 1789-1799 — Refugees.
• Political refugees — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History — 18th century.
• French — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia — History — 18th century.
• Political refugees — France — History — 18th century.
• Philadelphia (Pa.) — Social conditions — 18th century.
• Aristocracy (Social class) — France — History — 18th century.
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• France. fast (OCoLC)fst01204289
• Pennsylvania — Philadelphia. fast (OCoLC)fst01204170
• 1700 – 1799 fast
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• Machine generated contents note: ch. One Colonial Policies, Middle Eastern War, and City Spaces: Marseille in 1948 — ch. Two Decolonization and Migration: Constructing the North African Jew — ch. Three Encounters in the Metropole: The Impact of Decolonization on Muslim-Jewish Life in France in the 1950s and 1960s — ch. Four The 1967 War and the Forging of Political Community — ch. Five Palestine in France: Radical Politics and Hardening Ethnic Allegiances, 1968-72 — ch. Six Particularism versus Pluriculturalism: The Birth and Death of the Anti-Racist Coalition.

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• Muslims — France — Social conditions — 20th century.
• Muslims — France — Social conditions — 21st century.
• Jews — France — Social conditions — 20th century.
• Jews — France — Social conditions — 21st century.
• Muslims — Cultural assimilation — France.
• Jews — Cultural assimilation — France.
• Social integration — France.
• France — Ethnic relations.

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• France — History — Revolution, 1789-1799.

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• Introduction — Revolution of the press (1788-90) — From estates-general to national assembly (April-June 1789) — The rights of man : summer and autumn 1789 — Democratizing the revolution — Deadlock (November 1790-July 1791) — War with the church (1788-92) — The Feuillant revolution (July 1791-April 1792) — The general revolution begins (1791-92) — The revolutionary summer of 1792 — Republicans divided (September 1792-March 1793) — The general revolution from Valmy to the fall of Mainz (1792-93) — The world’s first democratic constitution (1793) — Education : securing the revolution — Black emancipation — Robespierre’s putsch (June 1793) — The summer of 1793 : overturning the revolution’s core values — De-Christianization (1793-94) — The Terror (September 1793-March 1794) — The Terror’s last months (March-July 1794) — Thermidor — Post-Thermidor (1795-97) — The general revolution (1795-1800) : Holland, Italy, and the Levant — The failed revolution (1797-99) — Conclusion : the revolution as the outcome of the radical enlightenment.
• Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers–that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture–almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world’s leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution’s intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution. Revolutionary Ideas demonstrates that the Revolution was really three different revolutions vying for supremacy–a conflict between constitutional monarchists such as Lafayette who advocated moderate Enlightenment ideas democratic republicans allied to Tom Paine who fought for Radical Enlightenment ideas and authoritarian populists, such as Robespierre, who violently rejected key Enlightenment ideas and should ultimately be seen as Counter-Enlightenment figures. The book tells how the fierce rivalry between these groups shaped the course of the Revolution, from the Declaration of Rights, through liberal monarchism and democratic republicanism, to the Terror and the Post-Thermidor reaction. In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas–not their fulfillment. –Book jacket.

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• France — History — Revolution, 1789-1799 — Causes.
• France — History — Revolution, 1789-1799 — Historiography.
• France — Intellectual life — 18th century.
• Revolutionaries — France — History — 18th century.

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