Troyes, Romilly sur Seine, La Chapelle Saint Luc, Saint André les Vergers, Sainte Savine, Saint Julien les Villas, Bar sur Aube, Nogent sur Seine, Pont Sainte Marie, Bar sur Seine, Les Noës pr?s Troyes, Brienne le Château, La Rivi?re de ...
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne was born in 1769, that is, in the same year as Napoleon Bonaparte, and he was the friend and companion of the future Emperor at the military school of Brienne-le-Chateau till 1784, when Napoleon, ...
Brienne now adopted a thoroughgoing reform position, granting various civil rights (including freedom of worship to Protestants), and promising the convocation of the Estates-General within five years, but also attempted in the meantime to go ahead with Calonne's plans. .... In rural areas, many went beyond this: some burned title-deeds and no small number of châteaux, as part of a general agrarian insurrection known as "la Grande Peur" (the Great Fear). ...
