The Edict of Nantes
English industry received a welcome boost after a French King gave in to prejudice.
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Passages about our closest neighbour, at one time our enemy but now our friend, and always (in Burke’s words) ‘the cradle of our race’.
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Not So Great Men
It was the opinion of Leo Tolstoy that even Napoleon was never master of his own destiny.
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Elbert Green Hubbard tells us about Richard Cobden’s early life, and how it shaped his values; Sydney Smith gives us his definition of marriage; mild-mannered clergyman George Herbert get his hands (and much else besides) dirty in helping labourer dumped in the road by his overloaded horse; and a Victorian commuter arrives home carrying more than his briefcase.