Rollo in Paris
Author : Jacob Abbott
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Children
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Author : Jacob Abbott
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Children
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Author : Jacob Abbott
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : Mary MacGregor
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2018-04-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1531267343
Long, long ago the land which we now call France was called Gaul. Gaul was much larger than France is to-day, although north, south, and west France has the same boundaries now as Gaul had in the far-off days of which I am going to tell you. What these boundaries are, many a geography lesson will have shown. But, lest you have forgotten, take a map of Europe, and you will see that on the north France has to protect her the English Channel, on the south she is guarded by the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees, while on her west roll the waters of the Atlantic. These mountains and waters were also the bulwarks of ancient Gaul.
Author : Si Sheppard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1472845706
The Vikings' siege of Paris in 885–86 was a turning point in the history of both Paris and France. In 885, a year after Charles the Fat was crowned King of the Franks, Danish Vikings sailed up the Seine demanding tribute. The Franks' refusal prompted the Vikings to lay siege to Paris, which was initially defended by only 200 men under Odo, Count of Paris, and seemingly in a poor state to defend against the Viking warriors in their fleet of hundreds of longships. Paris was centred around the medieval Île de la Cité, the natural island now in the heart of the city, fortified with bridges and towers. The Vikings attempted to break the Parisian defenders, but the city itself still held out, and after a year Charles' army arrived to lift the siege. But Charles then allowed the Vikings to sail upstream against the revolting Burgundians. Outraged at this betrayal, the Parisians refused to let the Vikings return home via the Seine, forcing them to portage their boats overland to the Marne in order to reach the North Sea. When Charles died in 888, the people of the of the Île de France elected Odo as their king. The resistance of Paris therefore marked the end of the Carolingian line and the birth of a new kingdom. This fully illustrated volume, accompanied with maps and strategic diagrams tells the full story of the Vikings' expedition to conquer medieval Paris, highlighting a key moment in the history of France and its foundation as a nation.
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 1876
Category : English fiction
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Author : Taunton (Mass.). Public Library
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 1878
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Author : Jacob Abbott
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : Jacob Abbott
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Thomas Wright
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Page : 988 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 1856
Category : France
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Author : Gloversville (N.Y.). Free Library
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Library catalogs
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