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French History Timeline - Chronological highlights, with links and photographs for major people, topics, and events.
Le Musée Niépce - Photography museum.
History and Archaeology of Mauriac - Includes historical information on this town situated in Haute Auvergne. Provides a photo album, maps and contact details.
Independence Day - French Independence day, including information on national heroes, symbols, flags and the national anthem. Also offers e-cards and wallpapers.
Furniture Tutorial - Offered by WR Furniture. Highlights the main characteristics of furniture in the period of Louis XV, Louis XIV and Louis XVI.
Le Poulet Gauche - A guide to the history, culture, and daily life of 16th century France.
Antique Maps of France - Historical maps of different countries from the 16th through 19th centuries from cartographers such as Ortelius, Homann, Blaeu, Bellin and others.
Heritage Sites and Museums - Monuments and museums in Meuse.
Borel Morane - Photos and drawings of the only known French built Borel Morane monoplane in existence today.
The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050 - Etext of book by Archibald Ross Lewis (frame-dependent HTML at Libro)
H-France - H-France is devoted to promoting the discussion, study, and teaching of French history and culture.
Words and Deeds of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Paris - Publication of archival documents (in French and English translation) about the mentally ill in eighteenth-century Paris.
Book Reviews - French History - Reviews of books on French history - a mix of popular and academic works, with a medieval focus.
History of the Bourbon-Condé Family - Short stories about a branch of the French royalty. Includes Bourbon-Conti and Bourbon-Soissons.
History of Provence - Trace the origins of civilization in southern France, from the era of Ligurian settlements (1000-600 BC) through successive Greek, Celtic, and Roman cultures, to the age of Napoleon.
Not the Germans Alone - A book by Isaac Levendel relating the author's childhood memories about the Holocaust in France and the complicity of the Vichy government with the Nazis.
Oradour-sur-Glane - Complete account of the massacre on 10th June 1944, with background material and an explaination as to why the event ocurred.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill History May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi History In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx History "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry History "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. History You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger History "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign History Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee History Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man History Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers History You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor History We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) History If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. -- Edgar Allan Poe History "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story History I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) History Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th History I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa History I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) History If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu History To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood History Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West History He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud History
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