The Devil’s Daughters and a question of translation between Occitan and Anglo-Norman French: ‘De las .vii. filhas del diable’ (British Library Add. MS 17920).

The evidence for vernacular-to-vernacular translation is hard to demonstrate in medieval Romance languages. This article analyses a hypothesis published a century ago that there is an identifiable Anglo-Norman source for an Occitan prose text. Both texts spring from a Latin exemplum in which the seven capital vices are personified as the Devil's daughters, married off to seven social categories (the clergy, knights, peasants, etc.). Although the hypothesis is disproved, it remains that the dialogue between Anglo-Norman French and Occitan has been overlooked, and deserves further exploration.

La monarquia francesa y los financieros en el Antiguo Régimen. El ejemplo de los traitants durante la Guerra de los Nueve Años, 1689-1697 = The French Monarchy and the financiers during the Old Regime. The case of the traitants during the Nine Years War, 1689-1697

This article explores the relationship between the Crown, the French society and the king's financiers. It starts with a brief review of the discourses on the financiers and a survey of the work done by historians. Further to a description of the various groups of financiers, it analyses the nature of the contracts passed between the king and the traitants to pay for the Nine Years War, as well as the latter’s activities and profits. The article argues that the government supervised effectively the traitants and that, given the constraints of the Old Regime, these financiers provided essential services, but too costly to be sustainable.

Septenary : manuscript, 1737-1745, 1755

Diary dated 1737 Sept. 19-1745 Aug. 19, chiefly concerns Robbins' personal religious faith. Also includes notes for a sermon on the death of Maj. Isaac Foot, who died in the French and Indian War.

The battle of the Boyne, together with an account based on French and other unpublished records of the war in Ireland

Mode of access: Internet.

The French official review of the first six months of the war, as issued by Reuter's agency.

Mode of access: Internet.

Diplomatic correspondence respecting the war published by the French government.

1. Documents relating to the negotiations which preceded Germany's declaration of war on Russia (August 1, 1914) and on France (August 3, 1914) Declaration of September 4, 1914.

France and the European war, full text of diplomatic documents; authorised translation by the Paris correspondent of the Times for the French government of the documents relating to the negotiations which preceded the declaration of war by Germany to Russia (August 1st, 1914) and to France (August 4th, 1914).

On cover: The French yellow book; an authorized translation by the Times for the French government of official documents proving how Germany forced the war.

French opinion on war and diplomacy during the Second Empire.

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoirs of Count Lally, from his embarking for the East Indies, as Commander in Chief of the French forces in that country, to his being sent prisoner of war to England, after the surrender of Pondichery : consisting of pieces written by himself and addressed to his judges, in answer to the charges brought against him by the attorney general of his Most Christian Majesty ... to which are added accounts of the prior part of his life, his condemnation, and execution; with such other pieces, (most of them produced on his trial) as were thought most necessary to illustrate his civil and military character.

Mode of access: Internet.

Journals of the Hon. William Hervey, in North America and Europe, from 1755 to 1814; with order books at Montreal, 1760-1763.

"Introduction" signed: S. H. A. H. [i.e. Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey]

The chevalier de Pontgibaud : a French volunteer of the War of Independence /

Mode of access: Internet.

World's cyclopedia of history : Containing: Greene's Large history of the English people, Schiller's History of the Thirty year's war, Creasy's Fifteen decisive battles of the world, Carlyle's History of the French revolution.

Mode of access: Internet.

Notes of the war in Spain; detailing occurences military and political, in Galicia, and at Gibraltar and Cadiz, from the fall of Corunna to the occupation of Cadiz by the French.

Mode of access: Internet.