"Yes, sire, so safe that if I saw a cross-bow pointed at you I would throw myself before you to shield you from the bolt." Thus spoke Burgundy's Duke
Burgundy’s Zenith
This series has three easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: France Versus Burgundy.IntroductionThe Duchy of Burgundy was a major
A Legal Framework for World Peace
We could not have a higher object than the adoption of any proper and honorable means which would lessen the chance of armed conflicts.Featuring
A Step Towards World Peace
William Howard Taft is the only man in history who served as both President of United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.Featuring
Unbearably Wearisome Final Period of His Reign
. . . profligate extravagance, revolting cruelty, and tottering incapacity--is as fatiguing as it is uninstructive.Today's installment concludes
Building Versailles Palace
He was building Versailles: transplanting to its arid sands whole groves of full-grown trees from the depths of distant forests. . . ."Continuing
Bad Conseqences of the War
But Louis' mad career of triumph against the Dutch was gradually being brought to a close.Continuing Louis XIV Establishes Absolute Monarchy in
Take Their Goods and Burn Their Houses
The government was not plundered as it had been, but itself was exhausting the very springs of wealth by its impoverishment of the people.Continuing
The Remarkable Coincidence
Louis XIV's kingly power soared, single and supreme, over prostrate foes.Continuing Louis XIV Establishes Absolute Monarchy in France,our