This charming primer on the alphabet captures the essence of everyday life among the French aristocracy in 1814, in a uniquely detailed series of watercolor dra

Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the fir

True, first-hand accounts of combat and soldiering from the men who fought for Napoleon Bonparte and the First French Empire: “Fascinating stuff” (Stuart As

Calligraphic letters of the alphabet drawn in black ink "written with a small piece of cherry veneer secured in a wooden handle", pasted up on a board.