Napoleon, Notre Amour
Americans have long had a love-hate relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte. Thomas Jefferson famously praised Napoleon for giving Louisiana to the United States, while condemning the Corsican general-turned-emperor…
Americans have long had a love-hate relationship with Napoleon Bonaparte. Thomas Jefferson famously praised Napoleon for giving Louisiana to the United States, while condemning the Corsican general-turned-emperor…
Apparently, historiography takes shape in the form of battles.[1] It began at historiography`s beginning,[2] when, to cite the most telling example, Cicero called Herodotus the “father of…
It is often said that the American Revolution resonated across the pond and inspired the French to rebel and liberate their country in a similar, heroic fashion…
Please see Tilo Schabert's two lectures, available on YouTube. His lecture on "The German Revolution 1989." It is available here. His lecture about the 2017 French Presidential…
All forms of political order are phenomena of movements. The classic typology of political constitutions that Plato elaborated and Aristotle modified to an extent therefore represents both:…
The Venice Roundtable François Mitterrand related the following episode several times afterward – to SPD [The German Social Democratic Party] president Hans-Jochen Vogel, Spanish prime minister Felipe…
A Critical Assessment[1] Apparently, historiography takes shape in the form of battles. It began at historiography's beginning,[2] when, to cite the most telling example, Cicero called Herodotus…
Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge. Pierre Manent. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2016. I have…
How World Politics is Made: France and the Reunifcation of Germany. Tilo Schabert with Barry Cooper, ed, and John Tyler Tuttle, trans. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri…
The Ethiopian Campaign and French Political Thought. Yves R. Simon with Anthony O. Simon, ed., and Robert Royal, trans. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press,…