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Lucas, A. Précis historique de l'Affaire du Panama.

From A History of the Third French Republic by Wright, C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad)

There is a curious dictum of Napoleon I. quoted in Hume's Précis of Modern Tactics, p.

From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Galton, Francis, Sir

On the commercial treaty with France of 1786, see Count de Butenval, Précis du Traité de Commerce, 1786, Paris, 1869, and Auckland Corr. as above.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane

We admire veracity, but let no soldier confess that he has not read the "Vie Politique et Militaire," and the "Précis de l'Art de la Guerre."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 by Various

Coquerel, Précis de l'histoire de l'égl. réf. de Paris, Pièces historiques, pp. xxii.-lxxvi.; twenty-one letters of Macar belonging to 1558.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn