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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Sunday, August 4, 2019

Immigrant Tales: From Prussia to Australia

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The Charles Dickens It is mid-July 1877. Henriette Krause is at least seven months pregnant when the Charles Dickens , the three-masted...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

The French Revolution: Brittany and the Vendée

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Drownings of Nantes in 1793, Joseph Aubert (1882) “We must exterminate all men who have taken arms against  the Republic  and...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

The Child in the Temple: the Fate of Marie-Antoinette's Son

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The fate of Marie-Antoinette's second son fascinates. The heir to the French throne upon his brother's earlier death, the D...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Julien's Terror - Imagining the French Revolution

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Julien's Terror, my latest novel, is the story of a haunting - a haunting that is either metaphysical or psychological, or is it...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

The Nantes of Jules Verne

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In 1828, the world-renowned science-fiction author, Jules Verne, was born in what was then called the Venice of the West - the city of N...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Tommaso Mocenigo

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Tommaso Mocenigo (1343 - 1423) Tommaso Mocenigo was Doge of Venice from 1414 right up to his death from a long illness in 1423.  ...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Renaissance Man

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Do you often meet people who defy categorization? Those whose interests and talents are so varied that they baffle the mind? Most humans ...
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