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II , for English naval operations; J. W. Gerard, The Peace of Utrecht . On the diplomacy of the whole period: D. T. Hill, History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe, Vol. III , ch. i-iv, a clear outline; Emile Bourgeois, Manuel historique de politique etrangere, 4th ed., Vol.
In one of these, which is reproduced in Racinet's "Le Costume Historique," there is a Chinese princess reclining on a sofa which has a frame of black wood visible, and slightly ornamented; it is upholstered with rich embroidery, for which these artistic people seem to have been famous from a very early period.
But it is a curious phenomenon in the old-book trade, that rarities do not always remain rare; volumes seeming to multiply through some cryptogamic process, when we know perfectly that no additional copies are printed and thrown off. The fact is, that the rumour of scarcity, and value, and of a hunt after them, draws them from their hiding-places. If we may judge from the esteem in which they were once held, the Elzevirs must have been great rarities in this country; but they are now plentiful enough the heavy prices in the British market having no doubt sucked them out of dingy repositories in Germany and Holland so that, even in this department of commerce the law of supply and demand is not entirely abrogated. He who dashes at all the books called rare, or even very rare, by Clement and his brethren, will be apt to suffer the keen disappointment of finding that there are many who participate with him in the possession of the same treasures. In fact, let a book but make its appearance in that author's Bibliothèque Curieuse, Historique, et Critique, ou Catalogue Raisonné des Livres difficiles
See also H. A. L. Fisher, The Republican Tradition in Europe , ch. i-vii; and Emile Bourgeois, Manuel historique de politique etrangere, 4th ed., Vol. II , ch. i-v, vii. I-IV, by Jaures himself, treat of the years 1789-1794, and Vol. VIII, a collection of scholarly monographs on various phases of the Revolution; Cambridge Modern History, Vol.
Jolliet . . . Jolliet . . . O, Jolliet, what splendid faery quel spectacle féérique dream Dut frapper ton regard, quand Met thy regard, when on that ta nef historique mighty stream, Bondit sur les flots d'or du Bursting upon its lonely grand fleuve inconnu unknown flow, Quel éclair triomphant,
"Memoires de Bertrand Barere": publies par MM. Hippolyte Carnot, Membre de la Chambre des Deputes, et David d'Angers, Membre de l'Institut: precedes d'une Notice Historique par H. Carnot. 4 tomes. Paris: 1843. This book has more than one title to our serious attention.
Among the literary and scientific societies is the Institut Historique, where public and gratuitous lectures are given. A journal is published, and all that members pay for it, and the advantages of the institution, is about four dollars a year.
ANGOUMOIS, an old province of France, nearly corresponding to-day to the department of Charente. Its capital was Angoulême. See Essai d'une bibliothèque historique de l'Angoumois, by E. Castaigne . George and Graciosa. Pop. 10,788.
But in August 1847, after the publication of Cousin Pons, the novelist paid a visit to Monsieur Hostein, manager of the Theatre Historique, which had been inaugurated in the preceding February.
Rebuked, and again liberated, Voltaire fled at first to France, where he published in the Dictionnaire Historique the most abominable assertions regarding Frederick's private life. Two years later he was settled at Ferney, on the Lake of Geneva, as a multi-millionaire, patriarch, and king.