Search Results: Titles starting with X from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Preface by Philippe Burrin, postface by Jean-Claude Nicolas. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 446 pages.
"Héraut des milieux anciens combattants de la droite catholique à la Chambre des députés pendant l'entre-deux-guerres, il fit scandale le 6 juin 1936 lorsque, s'adressant à Léon Blum du haut de la tribune parlementaire, il lança : " Pour la première fois ce vieux pays gallo-romain va être dirigé par un Juif ". Il devint dès lors le champion des milieux antisémites français, et, en juillet 1940, il se rallia avec enthousiasme au maréchal Pétain. En mars 1941, Xavier Vallat prit la direction du Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. Pendant un an, il s'acquitta de ses fonctions avec une ferveur fanatique, donnant à la France une législation anti-juive complète et systématique, il ordonna un recensement des Juifs en zone libre et tenta de faire adopter un nouveau Statut des Juifs,… Read More

Sixth printing. Edited, with an introduction, notes, and vocabulary by Maurice W. Mather and Joseph William Hewitt. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.75", shows crease to front cover. Book otherwise displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 516 pages."Born in the latter half of the fifth century B.C. near Athens, Xenophon enjoyed the best of educational and social advantages and for a time was a pupil and friend of Socrates. In 401 B.C., however, he was led by promises of adventure and fortune to join the ill-fated expedition of Cyrus against his brother, Artaxerxes the Second of Persia. After Cyrus lost his life and the other officers were murdered, Xenophon became one of the leading spirits of the army, eventually exacting revenge on the Persians, then retiring to Scillus, in Elis, to a life of sporting and literary activity. It was there that he composed the Anabasis, or "Up-Country March," a painstaking but brightly written account of the… Read More