Virginie Ghesquière: A Female Napoleonic Soldier - Shannon Selin
Virginie's story was popular, but was it true?| Shannon Selin
Joanna Stalnaker— In searching for street art depicting the authors I’m teaching this semester at Columbia University, I came across a portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in a photograph posted on... READ MORE The post What Remains of Rousseau? appeared first on Yale University Press.| Yale University Press
Let's imagine Louis XIV and Mazarin meeting in October 1648, when Europe awoke from a thirty-year nightmare.In Münster and Osnabrück, pens finally replaced cannons: the Peace of Westphalia was born.Signature of the Peace of Westphalia - Münster, 24 October 1648 While the diplomats wiped the sweat from their brows, in Paris, a ten-year-old boy listened […] The post Louis XIV and Mazarin: How France Quietly Gained Alsace appeared first on French Moments.| French Moments
This research on the Peace of Westphalia and Alsace tells how a peace treaty signed in 1648 not only ended the Thirty Years’ War, but also changed the fate of a region caught between empires.Signed in October 1648, the Treaties of Westphalia brought an end to one of the most devastating wars Europe had ever known — the Thirty […] The post The Peace of Westphalia and Alsace : from Habsburg to France appeared first on French Moments.| French Moments
The Peace of Westphalia: The End of an Endless WarBy the mid-seventeenth century, Europe was exhausted.For thirty years, the continent had been ravaged by a conflict of unprecedented scale — the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648).What had begun as a religious quarrel between Catholic and Protestant princes of the Holy Roman Empire had quickly turned into a political war, pitting the […] The post The Peace of Westphalia: The 1648 Treaties That Redrew Europe appeared first on French Mom...| French Moments
To see a completely different side to Paris, stroll through the Left Bank to the Museum of Liberation. It's an eye opener.| Life…one big adventure
Virginie's story was popular, but was it true?| Shannon Selin
The life and death of a fabulous royal residence near Paris| Shannon Selin
