Illustrated Histories in French.
(The colourful and graphic pictures make these histories beloved by all children whether they read the text or not.)
“Voyages et Glorieuses Découvertes des Grands Navigateurs et Explorateurs Français, illustré par Edy Segrand.”
“Collection d’Albums Historiques.”
Louis XI, texte de Georges Montorgueil, aquarelles de Job.
François I, texte de G. Gustave Toudouze, aquarelles de Job.
Henri IV, texte de Georges Montorgueil, aquarelles de H. Vogel.
Richelieu, texte de Th. Cahu, aquarelles de Maurice Leloir.
Le Roy Soleil, texte de Gustave Toudouze, aquarelles de Maurice Leloir.
Bonaparte, texte de Georges Montorgueil, aquarelles de Job.
“Fabliaux et Contes du Moyen-Age”; illustrations de A. Robida.
INDEX
| [A] | [B] | [C] | [D] | [E] | [F] | [G] | [H] | [I] | [J] | [K] | [L] | [M] |
| [N] | [O] | [P] | [Q] | [R] | [S] | [T] | [U] | [V] | [W] | [X] | [Y] | [Z] |
- A
- Abelard, [210]
- Abu-Bekr, [142]
- Achaeans, [55]
- Acropolis, [78], [81]
- Aegean Sea, [48]-[53]
- Africa, [452], [453]
- Age of Discovery, [224]-[240]
- Age of Expression, [219]-[223]
- Age of Reason, [346]
- Akkadians, [35]
- Alaric, [127]
- Alba, Duke of, [269]
- Albert of Sardinia, [393]
- alchemy, [404]
- Alcibiades, [82]
- Alemanni, [127]
- Alexander VI (Pope), [238]
- Alexander the Great, [28], [37], [83], [84]
- Alexander I, [355], [363]-[372], [386]
- Ali, [142]
- American Revolution, [323]-[333]
- Amerigo Vespucci, [236]
- Amorites, [35]
- Anne, [294]
- Antiochus III, [107]-[108]
- Antony, [117]
- Aquinas, Thomas, [194]
- architecture, [437], [438]
- Aristides, [77]
- Aristotle, [83], [193]-[195], [216]
- Arkwright, Richard, [406]
- art, [433]-[445]
- Assyrians, [28], [36]
- Athens, [81], [82]
- Augustus, [118]
- B
- Bach, [444]
- Bacon, Roger, [194], [226], [429]
- Bagdad, [142]
- Balance of Power, [296]-[300]
- Balboa, [236]
- Balkan States, [376], [386], [453], [454]
- Barbarossa, [166]
- Barrack Emperors, [125]
- Beethoven, [445]
- Belgium, [374]
- Bell, Alexander Graham, [411]
- Bentham, Jeremy, [420]
- Bismarck, [394]-[400]
- Blanc, Louis, [425]
- Blücher, [357]
- Boccaccio, [214]
- Boer War, [452]
- Bolivar, Simon, [383]
- Bologna, University of, [210]
- Bonaparte, Joseph, [383]
- Bonaparte (See Napoleon)
- Boris Godunow, [306]
- Brandenburg, [312]
- Brazil, [375]
- de Brienne, [340]-[341]
- Buddha, [241]-[246]
- Bulgaria, [453], [454]
- Bunsen, [430]
- Burgundians, [127]
- Byron, [388]
- Byzantine Empire, [216]
- conquered by Turks, [137]
- Byzantium, [126]
- C
- Cabot, John, [236], [284], [326]
- Caesar, Julius, [112]-[115]
- de Calonne, [339]-[340]
- Calvin, [262], [264]
- Canning, George, [384], [388]
- Capo d’Istria, [376]
- Carbonari, [386]
- Carthage, [88]-[104]
- government of, [88]-[90]
- Cartwright, Edmund, [406]
- Castlereagh, [368]-[372]
- Catiline, [113]
- Cavour, [394]
- Chaldeans, [37]
- Champollion, [19]
- Chancellor, Richard, [285], [301]
- Charlemagne, [144]-[149], [193]
- crowned, [146]
- his Empire divided, [146]-[148]
- Charles I (England), [287]-[290]
- Charles II (England), [290]-[292]
- Charles V, [252], [253], [259], [267], [269], [320]
- Charles X (France), [389]
- Charles XII (Sweden), [311]
- Charles XXII (Sweden), [374]
- Charles the Bold, [148]
- Charles Martel, [143]
- Chartist Movement, [418]
- Cheops, [26]
- chivalry, [159]-[161]
- Christian IV (Denmark), [274]-[276]
- Chrysoloras, [216]
- Cicero, [113]
- Civil War (U. S. A.), [423]
- Cleopatra, [28], [115]
- Clovis, [145]
- Cnossos, [51]-[53]
- Colbert, [320]
- College of Cardinals, [164]
- Colonial Expansion, [451]-[453]
- Columbus, [226], [232]-[235]
- Committee of Public Safety, [346]
- Confucius, [247]-[250]
- Congo, [452]
- Congress of Vienna, [361]-[382]
- Conrad V, [167]
- Constantine, [126], [127], [135]
- Constantinople, [127], [129], [137], [216]
- Copernicus, [231]
- Correggio, [440]
- cotton, [405], [406]
- Council of Ten (Venice), [200]
- de Covilham, Pedro, [231]
- Crete, [51]-[52]
- Crimean War, [396]
- Cromwell, Oliver, [289]-[290], [320]
- Crusades, [166]-[173]
- First, [169]
- Second, [170]
- Cuba, [453]
- cuneiform inscriptions, [32]
- Cyrus, [45]
- Czartoryski, Adam, [374]
- D
- da Gama, Vasco, [226], [236]
- Danish Parliament, [189]
- Dante, [211]-[213]
- Danton, [346]
- Declaration of Independence, [331]
- Declaration of Rights of Man, [334]
- Denmark, [374]
- Deutschland, [148]
- Diaz, Bartholomew, [230]
- discovery of America, [235]-[238]
- Disraeli, [454]
- Divine Right of Kings, [287]-[289]
- Draco, [64]
- Dutch East India Company, [238]-[272]
- Dutch Republic becomes Kingdom, [373]
- Dutch Republic formed, [190]
- Dutch West India Company, [273]
- Dynamoes, [411]
- E
- Edict of Nantes, [277]
- Egypt, [17]-[28]
- Captured by Alexander the Great, [27]
- Captured by Assyrians, [27]
- Captured by Hyksos, [27]
- Captured by Rome, [28]
- Electricity, [410]-[411]
- Elizabeth (England), [271], [283], [285], [320]
- Emancipation Proclamation, [423]
- England, conquests of, [154]
- English Cabinet, [293]
- English Colonies, [326]-[329]
- English Revolution, [279]-[295]
- Encyclopaedia (French), [336], [429]
- Engels, Friedrich, [425]
- Enghien, Duc d’, [351]
- Erasmus, [208], [256], [257]
- Eriksen, Leif, [232]
- Estates General (Holland), [189], [190], [270]
- Etruscans, [93]
- Eugénie, Empress, [399]
- van Eyck, Jan, [439]
- F
- factories, [413]-[419]
- Faraday, Michael, [411]
- Ferdinand and Isabella, [235]
- Ferdinand II (Austria), [274]
- Ferdinand VII (Spain),375
- Feudalism, [155]-[158]
- fire, first use of, [14]-[15]
- Fitch, John, [406], [407]
- Florence, [201], [396]
- Fra Angelico, [222]
- French Colonies, [327]-[329]
- French Parliament, [188]
- French Revolution, [334]-[348], [415]
- Francis Joseph, [393]
- Franco-Prussian War, [400]-[401]
- Franklin, Benjamin, [330], [410]
- Franks, [127], [144]
- Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, [166]
- Frederick II of Prussia, [314]-[316]
- Frederick William I, [314]
- Frederick William IV, [393]
- freedom of the sea, [272]
- Fulton, Robert, [406]
- G
- Galileo, [404]
- Garibaldi, [394]
- Genoa, [201]
- George I, [294]
- George II, [294]
- George III, [294], [330]
- German Empire, [400]-[401]
- Germany after Congress of Vienna, [376]-[379]
- Ghent, [203]
- Gibel-al-tarik, [142]
- Giotto, [222]
- Girondists, [346]
- Glacial Age, [13], [14]
- Godfrey of Bouillon, [170]
- Goths, [127]
- Gracchi, [111]
- Grand Remonstrance, [289]
- Grant, [423]
- Gratian, [210]
- Greece, [54]-[84], [376], [387], [388]
- Greek art rediscovered, [214], [215]
- “cities as states, [58]-[61]
- “government, [62]-[65]
- “home-life, [66]-[70]
- “language in Middle-Ages, [216]
- Greeks conquer Aegeans, [56], [57]
- Greek slaves, [67]-[68]
- “theatre, [71]-[73]
- Gregory (Pope), [136]
- Gregory VII, [164]-[166]
- Grotius, [272]
- Guelphs and Ghibellines, [211]
- von Guericke, Otto, [410]
- Gustavus Adolphus, [276]
- Gutenberg, [223]
- H
- Haiti, [383]
- Hals, Franz, [440]
- Hammurabi, [35]
- Hannibal, [100]-[107]
- Hanseatic League, [203]
- Hargreaves, James, [405]
- Hasdrubal, [102], [103]
- Hastings, Battle of, [154]
- van Heemskerk, [272]
- Hegira, [140]
- Hellenes, [55]
- Henry IV (Germany), [164]-[166]
- Henry VII (England), [282]
- Henry VIII (England), [262], [282]
- Henry the Navigator, [228]-[230]
- heresy, [265]
- herring fisheries, [203]
- hieroglyphics, [19]-[21]
- Hittites, [36]
- Hohenstaufen family, [166]
- Hohenzollern, rise of, [313]-[314]
- Holy Alliance,360-[372], [384]-[386]
- Holy Roman Empire founded, [148]
- Henry Hudson, [273]
- Hundred Years’ War, [281], [282]
- Huns, [127]
- Huss, John, [220], [369]
- Huygens, [405]
- Hyksos, [27]
- I
- Icelandic Parliament, [189]
- Indo-Europeans, [44]-[47]
- Indulgences, [258]
- Inquisition, [263], [264]
- Isis, [24]
- Italy united, [394]
- Ivan the Terrible, [202]-[203], [306]
- J
- Jacobins, [345], [346], [353]
- James I, [286]
- James II, [292]
- Japan, [452]
- Jefferson, Thomas, [331]
- Jenghiz Khan, [304]
- Jerusalem, [41]
- captured by Crusaders, [170]
- captured by Turks, [173]
- Jesuits, [266]-[267], [379]
- Jesus Christ, [118]-[123]
- Jews, [38]-[41]
- Joan of Arc, [220], [281]
- John (England), [186], [187]
- Josephine, Empress, [351]
- Justinian, [136]
- K
- Karageorgevich dynasty, [376]
- Kay, John, [405]
- à Kempis, Thomas, [219], [221]
- Kirchhoff, [430]
- Knighthood, [159]-[161]
- Königgrätz, battle of, [398]
- Kossuth, [392]
- Von Krüdener, Baroness, [369]-[371]
- L
- labor reforms, [420]-[426]
- Lafayette, [388]
- Lao-Tse, [247], [248]
- de Laplace, Marquis, [430]
- Lee, Richard Henry, [331]
- Lee, Robert, General, [423]
- van Leeuwenhoek, [430]
- Leibnitz, [404]
- Leipzig, battle of, [356]
- Leonidas, [78]
- Leopold I (Belgium), [391]
- Leopold II (Belgium), [452]
- Lincoln, Abraham, [423]
- Locomotives, [408], [409]
- Louis XIII, [276]
- Louis XIV, [296]-[299], [320], [334]-[335]
- Louis XVI, [338]-[346]
- Louis XVIII, [356], [365], [389]
- Louis Philippe, [391]-[392]
- Louisiana Purchase, [358]
- Loyola, [266]
- Luther, Martin, [251], [257]-[260]
- Lyell, Sir Charles, [430]
- M
- Macchiavelli, [222]
- Magellan, [225], [226], [236], [237]
- Magenta, battle of, [396]
- Magna Carta, [186]-[187]
- Mammals, [7]
- Man, first appearance, [10]
- Marathon, [76]-[77]
- Marco Polo, [224]
- Maria Theresa, [315]
- Marie Louise, [391]
- Marius, [111]-[112]
- Mary, Queen, [283]
- Mary, Queen of Scots, [283]
- Marx, Karl, [425]-[426]
- Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, [399]
- Mazzini, [394]
- Medes, [45]
- Mediaeval cities, [174]-[183]
- ““obtain charters, [180]-[183]
- “self-government, [184]-[190]
- “trade, [198]-[205]
- “world, [191]-[197]
- Medici, [201]
- de Medici, Catherine, [283]
- Mercantile System, [317]-[322]
- Merovingian kings, [144]-[145]
- Mesopotamia, [29]-[37]
- Metternich, [363]-[372], [386], [389], [390]-[392]
- Mexico, [399]
- Michelangelo, [440]
- Microscope, [430]
- Middle Ages, [191]-[197]
- Miltiades, [76]
- Mirabeau, [345]
- Mohammed, [138]-[143]
- Mohammedans conquer Mesopotamia and Spain, [142]
- Monroe Doctrine, [384]
- Montesquieu, [336]
- Montez, Lola, [393]
- Morse, Samuel, [410]
- Moscow, [305]-[306]
- “burned by Napoleon, [356]
- Moses, [38]-[41]
- Mozart, [444]
- Mummy, [24]
- Music, [441]-[445]
- Mycenae, [50]
- N
- Napier, John, [403]
- Napoleon, [149], [348]-[363], [374]-[375], [395]-[396]
- Napoleon III, [400]
- National Assembly, [343]-[345]
- Necker, [338], [341]-[344]
- Nelson, [354]
- Netherlands, war with Spain, [268]-[271]
- Newcomen, Thomas, [405]
- Newton, Isaac, [404], [429]
- Nicholas I (Russia), [391]
- Nieuw Amsterdam, [273]
- Nile Valley, [17], [22], [26], [27]
- Nimwegen, peace of, [299]
- Norman conquest of England, [280]
- Normandy, [151]
- Norse discoverers, [232]-[233]
- Norsemen, [150]-[154]
- North German Confederacy, [399]
- Norway, [374]
- Novgorod, [202]-[203]
- O
- Obrenovitch dynasty, [376]
- Octavian, [117]
- Odoacer, [127]
- Oldenbarneveldt, John of, [278]
- Osiris, [24]
- Otto the Great, [148], [163], [193]
- Owen, Robert, [425]
- Oxford University, [210]
- P
- Pacific Ocean, discovery of, [236]
- Paine, Thomas, [346]
- painting, [439]-[440]
- Palestine, [41]
- Papin, [405]
- Paris, University of, [210]
- Paul, [119]-[123]
- Paul I (Russia), [355], [367], [368]
- Peloponnesian war, [81]-[82]
- Pepin, [145]
- Pericles, [81]-[82]
- Persia, [45], [47]
- Persian wars with Greece, [74]-[80]
- Peter the Great, [307]-[311]
- Peter the Hermit, [169]
- Petrarca, [213]-[214]
- Piano, [443]-[444]
- Pilgrims, [329]
- Pius VII, [353]
- Plataea, battle of, [80]
- Pharnaces, [115]
- Pharaoh, [27]
- Philip II (Spain), [283], [288], [267]-[270]
- Philip of Macedon, [83]
- Philippe Egalité, [392]
- Philippine Islands, [237]
- Phoenicians, [42]-[43]
- Phoenician alphabet, [43]
- Poitiers, battle of, [142], [144]
- Poland, [374]
- Pompey, [113], [114]
- Pontius Pilate, [121]-[123]
- Pope, [123]-[137]
- Pope vs. Emperor, [162]-[167]
- Portugal, [375]
- Prester, John, [229]-[231]
- Priests, first mention of, [24]
- Printing, [223]
- Protestants and Catholics, [262]-[278]
- Prussia, [313]-[316]
- Ptolemean system of the universe, [231]
- Ptolemy, [28]
- Punic Wars—
- 1st war, [97]-[98]
- 2nd war, [98]-[103]
- 3d war, [103]-[104]
- Puritans, [289], [326]-[327]
- Pyramids, [25]-[26]
- R
- Rafael, [222]
- Ravenna, [127], [211]
- Reformation, [251]-[278]
- Reform Bill, [418]
- Reichstadt, Duke of, [360]
- Religion, origin of, [23]-[24]
- Rembrandt, [440]
- Renaissance, [206]-[223]
- Richard the Lion Hearted, [186], [187]
- Richelieu, [276]
- Robespierre, [346], [347]
- Roland, [146]
- Rollo, [151]
- Roman Church, [131]-[137], [253]-[255]
- ““in England, [279]
- “conquest of England, [279]
- “Empire, [117]-[130]
- “Slaves, [109]-[110]
- Rome, [88]-[130]
- conquers Greece, [106]-[107]
- conquers Syria, [107]-[108]
- earliest history, [91]-[96]
- fall of, [124]-[130]
- Romulus Augustulus, [127]
- Rosetta Stone, [18]-[19]
- Roumania, [387]
- Rousseau, Jean Jacques, [336]
- Rudolph of Hapsburg, [167]
- Rumford, Count, [410]
- Rump Parliament, [289]
- Runnymede, [186]
- Rurik, [302]
- Russia, [301]-[312], [380]
- Russo-Japanese War, [464]
- Ryswick, Peace of, [299]
- S
- Sabines, [93]
- St. Helena, [359]
- Salamis, [79]
- Salerno, University of, [210]
- Sarajevo, [455]
- Savonarola, [217]
- Schliemann, Heinrich, [48]-[50]
- Scientific Progress, [427]-[432]
- Scipio, Lucius, [108]
- Scipio, Publius, [103], [106]
- Serbia, [454]
- Serfs, [306]
- Shakespeare, [286], [441]
- Sicily, [393]
- Slavery abolished, [422]
- Socialism, [425]-[426]
- Solferino, battle of, [396]
- Solon, [64]
- Spain, [375]
- Spanish Armada, [271], [284]
- Spanish Succession, war of, [299]-[300]
- Sparta, [77]-[82]
- Star Chamber, [282]
- Steamboat, [406]-[408]
- Steam Engine, [404]-[405]
- Stephenson, George, [408]
- Stuarts, [286]-[292]
- Sulla, [111]-[113]
- Sumerians, [32]-[37]
- Sweden, [311], [374]
- Swedish Parliament, [188]
- Swiss Assemblies, [189]
- T
- Talleyrand, [363]-[365], [368], [371], [373]
- Taoism, [247]
- Ta’ Rifa, [228]
- Tartar Invasion, [304]-[306]
- Telegraph, [410]-[411]
- Telephone, [411]
- Ten Commandments, [40]
- Teutoburg Woods, [118]
- Theatre, [71]-[73], [441]
- Thebes, [28]
- Themistocles, [77]
- Theodoric, [127]
- Thermopylae, [78]
- Third Estate, [342]-[345]
- Thirty Years’ War, [273]-[278]
- Tilly, [274]-[276]
- Tory, [292]-[293]
- Toussaint l’Ouverture, [383]
- Trafalgar, [354]
- Triple Alliance of 1664, [298]
- Troy, [48]-[49]
- Turgot, [388], [417]
- V
- Vandals, [127]
- Varro, [102]
- Varus, [118]
- Vatican, [396]
- de Vega, Lope, [441]
- Velasquez, [440]
- Venezuela, [383]-[384]
- Venice, [172], [198]-[202]
- Vermeer, [440]
- Verrazano, [326]
- Victor Emanuel, [393]
- Vikings, [151]
- da Vinci, Leonardo, [222]
- Voltaire, [336]
- W
- Wallenstein, [274]-[276]
- Washington, George, [330]
- Waterloo, battle of, [357]-[358]
- Watt, James, [405]
- Wellington, Duke of, [357]
- Westphalia, treaty of, [273], [277]
- Whigs, [291]-[293]
- Whitney, Eli, [405]
- William I (Germany), [400]
- William III (England), [292]-[295], [299]
- William the Conqueror, [154]
- William of Orange (the Silent), [269]-[270]
- William of Orange, [390]
- Wilberforce, William, [422]
- de Witt, Jan, [298]-[299]
- Worms, Diet of, [259]
- writing, invention of, [18]-[21]
- Wycliffe, John, [220]
- X
- Xerxes, [79]
- Y
- Ypsilanti, Prince Alexander, [387]
Transcriber’s note
The illustrations have been moved slightly for reader convenience. Illustrations containing hand-written text have been linked to larger versions, the links may not work in every device. An alphabetic jump table has been added to the index.
Errors in punctuation have been corrected silently. Also the following corrections were made, on page
106 “adminster” changed to “administer” (he stayed behind to administer his newly conquered provinces)
248 “cemetary” changed to “cemetery” (disturb a cemetery situated)
262 “transubstantition” changed to “transubstantiation” (Their heads were filled with “predestination,” “transubstantiation,”)
295 “millenium” changed to “millennium” (It did not bring the millennium to England)
374 “Napolean” changed to “Napoleon” (as one of Napoleon’s adjutants)
374 “Hollstein” changed to “Holstein” (the last of the rulers of the house of Holstein-Gottorp had died)
482 “mechancial” changed to “mechanical” (mechanical processes that are making)
484 “544” changed to “454” (Bulgaria, 453, 454)
486 “Grachi” changed to “Gracchi” (Gracchi, 111)
487 “Ninwegen” changed to “Nimwegen” (Nimwegen, peace of, 299)
488 “Pharoah” changed to “Pharaoh” (Pharaoh, 27)
488 “Platea” changed to “Plataea” (Plataea, 383-384)
488 “Ptolomean” and “Ptolomy” changed to “Ptolemean” and “Ptolemy” (Ptolemean system of the universe, 231) (Ptolemy, 28)
489 “Varrus” changed to “Varus” (Varus, 118)
489 “Venizuela” changed to “Venezuela” (Venezuela, 383-384).
Otherwise the original was preserved, including inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation and possible misspelling of foreign words. The index has not been checked for errors in alphabetization or page numbers. Additional: “Ball Platz” on page 391 schould probably be “Ballhausplatz”, this has not been changed.