Portraits

Marie Gouze was seventeen years of age when she was married to the son of an inn-keeper. To make Marie a wife already as a teenager and to see her become a mother shortly thereafter can hardly have been scandalous in the French province of Montabaur in 1765. After all, the girl was at the…

As he ate with friends at a Paris café on the evening of July 31, 1914, Jean Jaurès was shot and killed. One day later, Germany declared war on Russia and the French government ordered a massive military mobilization. Three days later, Germany declared war on France. On the fourth day, the day that Germany…