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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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Norman Gash: Political Historian

Parliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 338-358, October 2024.
Abstract This article commemorates the 40th anniversary of the publication of Lord Liverpool by Norman Gash (1912–2009). It considers Gash as a historian who both wrote about 19th‐century politics and expressed political views of his own. These views became increasingly prominent in the 1980s, during Margaret Thatcher's period of office.
Richard A. Gaunt
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Courage, Honour, Loyalty. Portrait of the Napoleonic Soldier in the Late Nineteenth-century Novel: Georges d'Esparbès and some Polish Authors

, 2020
The legend of Napoleon I, particularly vivid in France and Poland throughout the nineteenth century, begins to support, at the end of this period, the naPonalist or independence propaganda, reflecting the political situation in each country.
Staroń, Anita
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The fictional representation of the Napoleonic wars in selected nineteenth century authors [PDF]

, 1973
An introduction delineates the scope of the thesis and summarises its findings in a comparative survey of the texts utilised in the study. Five chapters cover five selected authors who are represented by one or two of their works.
Mayhew, Jeffrey
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La Légende de Desaix [PDF]

, 2006
Les mémoires des acteurs de l’épisode napoléonien (comme ceux de Rapp et Savary), et les écrits de Sainte-Hélène (Las Cases, Antommarchi, Gourgaud, O’Meara, Bertrand) ont contribué à rendre populaire le portrait d’un Desaix intelligent, magnanime, un des
Lentz, Thierry
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Napoleon the Man and the Napoleonic Legend [PDF]

, 1937
Napoleon Bonaparte entered upon the stage of French history during a period of unrest. The French masses had overthrown and beheaded their Bourbon king. They were trying new theories and fine-spun doctrines or government.
Jennings, William
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Writing the History of the Papacy in the 21st Century

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 376-387, September 2025.
Simone Maghenzani
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The formation of landwehr during the Prussian liberation war of 1813 on the example of Silesia

, 2021
After the defeat of the Napoleonic army in the Russian campaign in 1812–1813, Prussia renounced the alliance with France and entered the war known as the “liberation war”. The King of Prussia, Frederick William III, addressed his subjects with an appeal “
Jakub Grudniewski, Grudniewski, Jakub
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The Black Legend of Napoleon

, 2006
Few leaders have managed their reputations as successfully as Napoleon Bonaparte. So beguiling was his image that just thirty-three years after the disaster of Waterloo, his untested nephew, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, was elected President of the Second
Burrows, Simon (R17300)
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Siegfriedism: Myths Behind Mirrors

, 2021
In 1755 physician and writer Jacob Hermann Obereit “rediscovered” a thirteenth-century manuscript of Das Nibelungenlied in Hohenems, Austria. The texts of the epic had been left forgotten in the obscurity of monasteries and libraries for the previous two
Feuer, Hanna P
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