What better way to understand a region than by learning its history and listening to its stories? In this book, Margo Lestz shares some intriguing tales from that magical place known as Provence.
Author: Margo Lestz
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ISBN: 0993137164
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Page: 160
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What event in English history did Napoleon's dispersion of the Five Hundred resemble ? 37. ... How many coalitions leading to war have been made against France ? 40. ... What curious story is told of Rollo's doing homage for his fief ?
Author: Joel Dorman Steele
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ISBN: UVA:X002303972
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Page: 299
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What event in English history did Napoleon's dispersion of the Five Hundred resemble ? 37. ... How many coalitions leading to war have been made against France ? 40. ... What curious story is told of Rollo's doing homage for his fief !
Author: A.S. Barnes & Co
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ISBN: STANFORD:36105049355493
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Page: 348
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What comes to mind when you think of France? This book is a collection of histories and stories related to some of the things that have come to symbolize France and the French.
Author: Margo Lestz
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ISBN: 0993137199
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Page: 152
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Strange it is that these French terms should have won their way into our hovels as well as into our manor houses . ... In the same page , nycete stands for folly.1 This French word has had a most curious history in England . Nice stood ...
Author: Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant
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ISBN: HARVARD:HX5B1J
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Page: 526
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His fault lay in overworking minute details and losing sight of that symmetry which is essential to perfection in form . His literary habits were eccentric , and many curious stories are told of his mode of working after having gathered ...
Author: Charles Woodward Hutson
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ISBN: UVA:X000844578
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Page: 349
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The writer , from his familiarity with this country , was especially fitted to give a French view of our history . ... It contains a curious story of a Massachusetts expedition to New Mexico in 1678 , and a claim that La Salle's guides ...
Author: Justin Winsor
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ISBN: HARVARD:HWB3A9
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Page: 686
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Those of the father are chiefly interesting , as exhibiting the curious mixture of worldly and spiritual motives which played so large a part in the history of the time . For Arnauld who was the fervent friend and disciple of Saint ...
Author: George Saintsbury
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ISBN: HARVARD:HWAVTL
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Page: 644
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The general historians of New France necessarily give more or less attention to the study of the Indians as the ... Dr. Shea reprinted it in 1866 , and in his introduction and notes its somewhat curious bibliographical history is ...
Author: Justin Winsor
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ISBN: UOMDLP:acp2377:0004.002
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Page: 296
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CHAP XXV 1575 religion in every part of France , with eight large towns to be selected by themselves out of those already in their possession ... France . 1 This curious story was current in Paris a week E 2 The Reign of Elizabeth . 51.
Author: James Anthony Froude
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ISBN: UCAL:$B202967
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Page: 698
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