Living through a military occupation also means living with the enemy. The contributions presented here examine this idea, in 1914-18 just as in 1939-45 or during the periods of 'leaving wars'; in France and Belgium just as in Poland, Central Africa, or Germany. Between dialogue and power struggles, occupiers and occupied alike adapted to a ...

Nicholas Rodger presents us with an insider's view of the modus operandi of the Royal Navy which relentlessly fought against the French Navy during the XVIIIth century.

If the history of death has given rise to many and great works for the last forty years, the history of the fate reserved for the dead body remains little known.

Research on ancient terracotta figurines underwent a deep evolution in its methods and questions: this book is the striking testimony of this recent change.

Biographic dictionary of the archaeologists of the region "HAUTS DE FRANCE", native of our five departments or who searched there as these officers of the German or British troops. We will thus find known names as Boucher de Perthes, Auguste Mariette but also names of numerous volunteer archaeologists.

In the light of the latest archaeological findings on salt in northern Gaul, this book brings together various contributions showing the multiple ways to consider study of salt.

The French minister for Foreign Affairs Théophile Delcassé might consider that "there were nothing to do but snoring in the French Embassy in Berlin" at the turn of the Twentieth century, serving as a diplomat in the famous French hotel on Pariser Platz at that time was no easy work. Diplomacy on hostile ground left little time to rest, let alone..

The obligation made for people of law to lead the beggars in the prisons of the closest city raises the question of the confinement in the big cities of the provinces of the North. In France, the royal State believes to remedy these difficulties by the edict of June, 1662 ordering the creation of a general hospital in every city of the kingdom. The

Feasts of precept, civic festivals, holidays, so many realities which, from the Middle Ages to modern times and up to the present day, have punctuated the times of Western societies. The book examines the adherence to these practices, but also critical of them.

The castle of Pierrefonds, restored by the architect Viollet-le-Duc at the request of Napoleon III, is one of the most prestigious building sites of the second half of the 19th century.