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  • FRENCH-ENGLISH BATTLES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
    JEAN-CLAUDE CASTEX
    Who would have thought that the Battle of Hastings would somehow trigger a Thousand Years’ War between France and England ? This interminable vendetta, interspersed with more or less brief truces, sowed desolation in both countries and cost millions of lives to several nations : the French, of course, but also the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English, and above all the Germ...
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    32,54 €

  • SUCKER TRICK IN JOLIETTE
    Jean-Claude Castex
    A whimsical detective story designed to draw a comparison between the paradises and hells of several of our planet’s religions. Very instructive about the imagination of the various Religious congregations to control their flocks with these 'carrots' and 'sticks'. Philippe Bouvard once said that 'everyone should keep a diary, starting with criminals'. It would simplify police ...
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    22,21 €

  • THE FINAL SWING
    Jean-Claude Castex
    Love and hate were once the main purveyors of the gallows. The tragic fates of three women executed by hanging in the days of New France and the United-Canada bear witness to this. Reconstructing the events from historical articles and, above all, from the Ottawa Criminal Archives, the author recounts these little-known stories that animated the lives of former Canadians:•The c...
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    17,68 €

  • Across Canada on Gooseback
    Jean Claude Castex
    Three children are willingly reduced to miniature size by a Native American sorcerer. They decide to travel from Newfoundland to Canada’s West Coast on the backs of wild geese. They are pursued by two mean birds eager to do them harm... thrilling adventures enhanced by local legends in each of the ten provinces.Meet Caroline, Valerie, and their brother in these adventures. It w...
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    21,14 €

  • DIPLOMACY IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
    Jean-Claude Castex
    This book is a critical edition of the French, American, and English motivations during the American War of Independence, because 'where there is no freedom of blaming, there can be no genuine praise'. (Beaumarchais). The American Revolution is in full swing. Deep in their hearts, the Canadians of the defunct New France will take advantage of the opportunity to free themselves ...
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    36,15 €

  • Crimes & Punishments of Canadian Women BOOK TWO
    Jean-Claude Castex
    Are you opposed to death penalty? If you are in favor, it is likely that reading this book will convince you to oppose it because of the statistically inevitable miscarriages of justice. This work in two volumes brings to life fourteen women, with their strengths and weaknesses, their inexpiable crimes and their inhuman punishments, their guilt or their innocence. They are the ...
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    26,44 €

  • Crimes & Punishments of Canadian Women BOOK ONE
    Jean-Claude Castex
    In these pages, the author has tried to bring to life some of the Canadian women sentenced to death and hanged for crimes through the centuries. Some were unjustly hanged. Thus all these women victims of the gallows can still proclaim their innocence beyond the tombstone, after centuries of silence. For, some of them are certainly entitled to convince us that they were, alas, v...
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    18,26 €

  • Diplomacy in the War of the Spanish Succession 1702-1714
    Jean Claude Castex
    In 1710, France, which was fighting against the whole of Europe, to impose a Frenchman on the throne of the Spanish Empire, was on the verge of succumbing and being dismembered. So, the French bribed England into abandoning its Allies on all battlefields and to stop subsidizing and funding the war against the French.This monographic research aims to objectively reveal this unus...
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    23,54 €

  • The Battle of Grand-Coteau (North Dakota, July 13-14 1851) & other historical accounts.
    Jean-Claude Castex
    The Battle of Grand Coteau remains one of the greatest sources of pride for Métis peoples in Western Canada. On that day, July 13, 1851, a handful of 80 proud and daring Métis fighters came up against 2,000 intrepid Sioux warriors. The latter, absolute Masters of the Prairie, had decided to prohibit the Métis from hunting bison, which was essential to the very survival of this ...
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    18,06 €

  • L’aura de Laura
    Jean-Claude Castex
    Un vieillard raconte quelques souvenirs de sa longue vie, tout au long de vingt nouvelles (short stories). Les souvenirs de cet homme restent une source d’enrichissement. Dans cet ouvrage, il plonge dans des impressions intimes qui l’ont mené à un voyage encore plus grand : celui que l’on fait en soi. ...
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    12,12 €

  • Diplomatie franco-anglaise de la Guerre d’IndŽpendance amŽricaine ; Pourquoi la France n’a-t-elle pas voulu rŽcupŽrer le Canada ? suivi du RŽpertoire des opŽrations militaires franco-anglaises de la G
    JEAN-CLAUDE CASTEX
    Durant la Guerre d’IndŽpendance amŽricaine s’affrontent la France et l’Angleterre. Au fond de leur coeur, les Canadiens-Franais esprent que la France va reprendre le Canada. Pour la premire fois sans alliŽs dans une guerre contre la France, l’Angleterre s’Žcroule dans une dŽfaite humiliante sous les applaudissements des autres puissances europŽennes : Prusse, Autriche, Espag...
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    23,52 €

  • Crimes et Châtiments de Canadiennes Tome I
    Jean-Claude Castex
    L’auteur s’est efforcé dans cet ouvrage en deux tomes de faire revivre toutes les femmes canadiennes mortes sur la potence afin de leur donner la chance unique de proclamer leur innocence, si tel était le cas, après des siècles de silence. Car certaines sont assurément en droit de nous convaincre qu’elles ont, hélas, été victimes d’erreurs judiciaires et que la vie leur a été i...
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    12,60 €

  • Urban Forms
    Ivor Samuels / Jean Castex / Phillippe Panerai
    This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic...
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    94,95 €