Recent Posts Tagged With 'french history'

• Virtual Exhibitions of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 15:46 in Enlightenment, voltaire, french history, medieval history

  I recently stumbled the Virtual Exhibitions page of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF to its friends), which conveniently has an English translation button.The site a) looks fab and b) has plenty of interesting content.Enlightenment ("Lumier...

• Saint-Malo and the Infernal Machine

  Posted on Monday September 15th, 2008 at 15:56 in monty python, naval history, french history, holiday notes, 17th century history, 20th century history, saint-malo

  I have resolved to blog with renewed zeal to reward the interest of all my new readers. So we travel to north-western France, destination for Cardinal Wolsey's last holiday in late August, for the first in a series of vacation posts.The overnight fer...

• Holiday Notes Easter 2008

  Posted on Monday April 7th, 2008 at 16:11 in henry viii, french history, holiday notes, 16th century history, field of the cloth of gold

  Cardinal Wolsey was on holiday in France last week, and was pleased to pass a sign on the autoroute pointing out the Champ du Drap d'Or (Field of the Cloth of Gold), near to Calais.This was the extravagant meeting in 1520 between Henry VIII and Franc...

• Joan of Arc found innocent, 7th July, 1456

  Posted on Sunday July 8th, 2007 at 04:43 in executions, american history, french history, joan of arc, admiral john byng, world war 1 1914-18

  Joan of Arc was finally declared innocent of heresy by Inquisitor-General Jean Brehal on 7th July 1456, 25 years after her death at the stake.Some more modern cases of those found innocent or pardoned after their executions:More than 300 British sold...