The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2Encyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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Page 419
... Paris Spanish Succession , 1701-14 ) , Boufflers was given the French command in the Spanish Netherlands . He dealt the Dutch a sharp blow before Nijmegen ( 1702 ) but was driven from Dutch soil by the British commander John Churchill ...
... Paris Spanish Succession , 1701-14 ) , Boufflers was given the French command in the Spanish Netherlands . He dealt the Dutch a sharp blow before Nijmegen ( 1702 ) but was driven from Dutch soil by the British commander John Churchill ...
Page 481
... Paris noted at that time as a haunt of artists and criminals . His pictures were pub- lished in a photographic book , Paris de nuit ( " Paris at Night " ) , in 1933 , containing pho- tographs such as " Bijoux ' in Place Pigalle Bar ...
... Paris noted at that time as a haunt of artists and criminals . His pictures were pub- lished in a photographic book , Paris de nuit ( " Paris at Night " ) , in 1933 , containing pho- tographs such as " Bijoux ' in Place Pigalle Bar ...
Page 544
... Paris , Fr.-d. Feb. 18 , 1876 , Paris ) , French botanist whose classification of fos- sil plants , which drew surprisingly accurate relations between extinct and existing forms prior to Charles Darwin's principles of or- ganic ...
... Paris , Fr.-d. Feb. 18 , 1876 , Paris ) , French botanist whose classification of fos- sil plants , which drew surprisingly accurate relations between extinct and existing forms prior to Charles Darwin's principles of or- ganic ...
Contents
Beckford detail from an oil painting | 107 |
John Hoppner c 1800 in the Salford | 234 |
To make the best use of the Britannica | 260 |
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