In 1848, before the age of the 'new imperialism', France already claimed an overseas empire extending from the Americas to Africa and the Indian Ocean. The sole North American possession France ...

The 3 August 1848 issue of the New Era of Industry (Vol. 1 No. 9). The Voice of Industry (Vol. 3 No. 37 - 24 March 1848) The 24 March 1848 issue of the Voice of Industry (Vol. 3 No. 37). This is a ...

ON February 22, 1848, Richard Rush, the American Minister to the Court of the Tuileries, noted in his diary that he had just returned from a soirée at the Roche-foucaulds'. The party was not large but ...

Behind the reflection contained in Mörike's Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag (1855) on the French Revolution, the social process leading to it and links with Mozart's art, there lie memories of and ...

Much of the immediate reaction to the audacious theft has concentrated on the Louvre’s security problems, rather than on the ...