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The dissolution of the Order of the Temple and the persecution of the Knights Templar are still fresh in people's minds. Why did King Philip the Fair and Pope Clement V set out to destroy them? What secrets did the Knights Templar hold?Just as the Da Vinci Code revealed...
“Let the muse of history be silent, and make way for genetics.” Jean Tulard “Fascinating.” Jean-Noël Fabiani, Professor Emeritus, Chair of the History of Medicine Until recent years, many mysteries and rumors have surrounded Napoleon. Was Napoleon's body taken by the...
Here is the current, captivating and uncompromising portrait of a great country and its people. Top of the European class, polite, hardworking and rarely at fault, Germany, 20 years after Reunification, has enjoyed at leisure its hitherto well-mastered growth: culture,...
It's called TAFTA. Its aim is to lower trade barriers as much as possible—particularly standards—between our two continents, in order to facilitate trade. Negotiations have already begun on regulations affecting all aspects of our lives (food, health, social rights,...
At Terezín, many children sang for the Nazi officials and the Red Cross. They were used as propaganda tools, between 1943 and 1944, to make the world believe that Hitler had given a "paradise" to the Jews. Only around 100 of the 15,000 innocent people who passed through...
Did you know that lower oil prices are almost never passed on fairly to consumers at the pump? That oil companies sacrifice their own refineries? That they pay no taxes, manipulate information and collude to avoid competition? Every year, the announcement of profits by...
Since independence, Algeria has been ruled by Generals who have kept the country in a state of civil war and misery. But how does this power function and endure? Arrested and tortured in Algeria for setting up a free student union in the 1980s, accused of Islamism and...
Who are the descendants of Fletcher Christian today? How did the Bounty rebels survive in virtual autarky on their island at the end of the world for ten generations? Why did the British crown finally take its revenge on the mutineers who had defied it since 1790?...
1932. The economic crisis in Germany was unprecedented—a severe recession, 6 million unemployed, and a collapse in the popularity of Chancellor Brüning, who was criticized for his lack of foresight and who stubbornly focused on a single objective—reducing public...
“An exceptional study. The author of the book has had the audacity to approach Russian chaos... armed with her desire to prove that the country is by no means a madhouse but simply an immense space, difficult to access for the outsider who is unfamiliar with Russian...
If a deep and lasting crisis shook our democracies, as happened to German society from 1929 to 1933, would we be able to resist the fascist temptation? On January 31, 1933, thirty-two million Germans, who had not voted Nazi woke up caught in the trap of dictatorship....
What are the founding principles of anarchism?What links the philosophy of Proudhon, who introduced this notion in France in 1840, to the act of the Italian Sante Geronimo Caserio, who assassinated President Sadi Carnot in 1894? This introduction to anarchism helps us...
«Che la musa della storia taccia e lasci spazio alla genetica». Jean Tulard «Affascinante». Jean-Noël Fabiani, professore emerito presso la Cattedra di Storia della Medicina ...
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