Author: Louis Halphen

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IT was at his winter home at Doué, early in February 814, that Louis of Aquitaine received the news of his father’s death, which had been immediately sent to him by his sisters and the magnates who h …

The alluring dream of Charles the Great has vanished; after his death no temporal prince was found capable of carrying on his work, and it fell to ruins. Nevertheless, the root idea which had inspire …

En quoi l’Histoire est-elle utile ? Quel est son objet ? Quelles sont ses méthodes ? Est-ce véritablement une science ? On n’a jamais écrit autant de livres d’histoire que de nos jours ; on n’a jamai …