Category: History - European
One of the greatest achievements of modern research is the discovery of a key by which we may determine the kinship of nations. What we used to conjecture, we now know. An identity in the structural form of language establishes with scientific certitude that however diverse th...
It is strange to read that the armies went on fighting battles automatically, even while there was no central head to direct them. While the ghastly scenes were enacting in Pari...
18. CHAPTER X.Again do we recognize the fine Italian hand in French politics. Cardinal Mazarin was Minister during the regency of Anne of Austria, directing and controlling the affairs of the...
19. CHAPTER XI.Louis XV. was dead, and two children, with the light-heartedness of youth and inexperience, stepped upon the throne which was to be a scaffold--Louis XVI., only twenty, and Mari...
12. CHAPTER IV.Gaul had been Latinized and Christianized. Now one more thing was needed to prepare her for a great future. Her fibre was to be toughened by the infusion of a stronger race. Jul...
9. CHAPTER I.One of the greatest achievements of modern research is the discovery of a key by which we may determine the kinship of nations. What we used to conjecture, we now know. An ident...
16. CHAPTER VIII.There is not time to tell the story of the events leading up to that fateful night, August 24, 1572. Impelled always by her fear and dread of the Guises, Catharine had been vaci...
15. CHAPTER VII.The early part of the sixteenth century must ever be memorable in the history of Europe. Ferdinand and Isabella had given to the human race a new world. Luther had hurled his de...
13. CHAPTER V.I think that it was Lincoln who said that "the Lord must like common people, because he had made so many of them." The path for the common people in France at this time led thro...
11. CHAPTER III.While the Star of Empire was thus moving toward the West, another and brighter star was about to arise in the East. So accustomed are we to the story, that we lose all sense of...
14. CHAPTER VI.Like all oppressive systems, feudalism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction. When the King, shorn of prerogative and of dignity, made alliance with the people lyi...
17. CHAPTER IX.After long wandering in strange seas, we come in view of familiar lights and headlands. With the advent of the house of Bourbon, we have grasped a thread which leads directly do...
10. CHAPTER II.The making of a nation is not unlike bread or cake making. One element is used as the basis, to which are added other component parts, of varying qualities, and the result we ca...
8. CHAPTER XII.3. CHAPTER IV.7. CHAPTER XI.4. CHAPTER V.2. CHAPTER III.6. CHAPTER X.1. CHAPTER I.5. CHAPTER VI.