l'histoire

Updated: May 24, 2025

"Those gracious kings are all a pack of rogues. En lisant l'histoire des York et des Lancastre, et de bien d'autres, on croit lire l'histoire des voleurs de grand chemin. Pour votre Henri Sept, il n'était que coupeur de bourses. STRAWBERRY HILL, Aug. 16, 1768.

Horace Walpole - Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II

M. Guizot says in his Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de mon temps: "This ministry, formed to overcome the Revolution and save the monarchy, remained inert and sterile.

baron Arthur Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand - The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X

Balzac enjoyed himself for the time, and rested from his literary labours, except for working at the second part of "L'Envers de l'Histoire Contemporaine," which is called "L'Initie," and writing the play which he had promised Hostein as a substitute for "Pierre et Catherine."

Mary F. (Mary Frances) Sandars - Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

Mme Durand-Bedacier, Les belles Grecques, ou l'histoire des plus fameuses courtisanes de la Grece. B.M. Catalogue. A. Lang, History of English Literature , 458. See ante, p. 25. Re-issued as The Unfortunate Princess, or, the Ambitious Statesman, 1741. J.E. Wells, Fielding's Political Purpose in Jonathan Wilde, PMLA, XXVIII, No. I, pp. 1-55. March, 1913.

George Frisbie Whicher - The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood

«Ce vallon offre des remarques intéressantes pour l'histoire naturelle, sa position, sa forme, et son nivellement ne laissent aucun doute que cet emplacement n'ait été le séjour des eaux; en examinant les bords du lit de la Reuss, on reconnoît que le terrain de ce vallon est par couches horizontales de pierres argileuses; le pied des montagnes qui entourent le vallon sur la droite est de pierre calcaire grise,

James Hutton - Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4)

I am reading l'Histoire de la Medecine by Daremberg, which amuses me a great deal, and I have finished l'Essai sur les facultes de l'entendement by Gamier, which I think very silly. There you have my occupations. THINGS seem to be getting quieter. I breathe again. I don't know whether they talk as much of the Shah in Nohant as they do around here. The enthusiasm has been immense.

Gustave Flaubert - The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

"Oh!" cried Madame de Bréville, "Blondel shall sing for us 'L'Histoire de Madame X. You shall cry with laughter." "And 'Le Brigadier de Tours," added Tanrade. The sound of hoofs and the rattle of a dog-cart beyond the wall sent us hurrying to the courtyard. "Eh, voil

F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith - A Village of Vagabonds

Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle de la France Equinoctiale. Par P. Barrere. Paris, 1749. 2 vols. 8vo. The former of these works is chiefly confined to a description of the natives, their weapons, manners, mode of life, &c.: the latter work is full on the natural history of Guyana. Bancroft's Essay on the Natural History of Guyana. 1769. 8vo.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson

Ils ont d'autres manières de s'amuser: le jeu, la boisson, et le reste, qui sont de tous les temps et de tous les pays: l'histoire de France en peut témoigner autant que celle de n'importe quelle nation. Il faut croire que ces plaisirs sont les plus appropriés

George William Erskine Russell - Collections and Recollections

Cher Reeve, Il y a un siecle que je ne vous ai ecrit. Je n'etais pas libre de le faire. Le mois de janvier tout entier s'est passe au milieu de la crise la plus douloureuse. Je ne crois pas qu'il y ait aucun mois de ma vie qui merite mieux que celui-la d'etre marque d'une croix noire dans l'histoire de mon existence privee.

John Knox Laughton - Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. : In Two Volumes. Volume II.