The model 1777 rifle, which is the culmination of all the modifications made to the rifle since 1717, is the work of the gunner Gribeauval. Developed at the end of the Ancien Régime, this rifle was used during the long period of the wars of the Revolution and the First Empire. It is generally consid
The legal language is harsh and cumbersome for most people, something that law students who have to learn the law would surely subscribe to. Would they have it easier if they were written in verse? This was believed by Carondas, an ancient legislator, who applied it to the corpus normative that he m
The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Latin and Christian state of the Middle Ages founded during the first crusade, in 1099, and whose capital was Jerusalem. Disappeared in 1291, it covered present-day Israel, part of Jordan and Lebanon. It was the longest and most extensive of the Frankish states founded
In 1954 the Algerian war began. But faced with a conflict that escalated, successive governments were unable to provide an adequate response to the decolonization movement that had been underway since the end of the Second World War. In 1958, de Gaulle returned to power, proposing some Algerian auto