The War of the Spanish Succession was a conflict between France and a coalition of European powers that included England. The war was about who would inherit the throne of Spain.
“Fog everywhere. Fog upstream of the river, where it flows between green islets and meadows, fog downstream of the river where it unfolds among the alongside ships and the pollution of the shores of a noble (and dirty) city. The tirade stretched over several paragraphs to describe, in the novel The
He had a reputation as incorruptible. There were legends about his integrity. This lifelong image collapsed ... in just 24 hours. What was enough to say to knock someone off the top so quickly and send them to the guillotine? The fall of Maximilian Robespierre, which took place on the 9th of The
France and England entered into negotiations to reach an agreement with the USSR, however, Stalin, offended in Munich, began the path towards his “political turn ”. Stalin feared to see the Western democracies a new Munich at the expense of Poland. The Russians, in April 1939, proposed to France and
Athens is the only place, the proud statesman Pericles put it in a nutshell, where an apolitical person is not considered a quiet citizen, but a bad citizen. In the beginning there was an uprising Between 508 and 322 BC the Athenians for the first time no longer obeyed a king, no noble caste, no ty