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This project has a dedicated proof-listener who will listen to all sections: Kitty

SectionTitleReaderNotesListen UrlStatus
1 Friedland, 1807, by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (France, 1815-1891), painting, frontispiece  Kitty PL OK
2 Italy Part I: In mediaeval times: Historical note  Kitty PL OK
3 The coming of Charlemagne (774), by Gustave Masson  Kitty PL OK
4 How Rome was defended from the Saracens (848), by Archibald Bower  Kitty PL OK
5 The story of Gregory the Great (1050-1085), by Louise Creighton  Kitty PL OK
6 Excommunicated, by Jean Paul Laurens (French painter, 1838), painting p. 12  Kitty PL OK
7 St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), by Eva March Tappan  mightyfelix PL OK
8 The sermon of St. Francis, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  NemoR PL OK
9 A day in Florence, in the thirteenth century, by Guido Biagi  neecheelok70 PL OK
10 Italy Part II: Dante and his age: Historical note  moniaqua PL OK
11 Dante's vision of Heaven (1265-1321), by Norley Chester  moniaqua PL OK
12 Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374), by Eva March Tappan  neecheelok70 PL OK
13 Pope Boniface defies his assailants, by Albert Maignan (France, 1844-1908), painting p. 36  alanmapstone PL OK
14 A supposed street scene in Verona in the fourteenth century, by William Shakespeare  alanmapstone moniaqua silverquill SonOfTheExiles Kitty WiltedScribe neecheelok70 SaraHale mightyfelix bluechien NemoR Foon PL OK
15 The rule of Rienzi (1347-1354), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton  Iunta4Ios PL OK
16 The flagellants, by Carl Marr (American painter, 1858), painting p. 48  Foon PL OK
17 Italy Part III: The Renaissance: Historical note  Roger PL OK
18 How the doges of Venice were chosen, from the old chronicles  Lmnei PL OK
19 The burning of the vanities (1497), by George Eliot  adr6090 PL OK
20 Benvenuto Cellini, a goldsmith of the sixteenth century (1500-1571), by Alexandre Dumas  neecheelok70 PL OK
21 Galileo before the Inquisition, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 72  alanmapstone PL OK
22 The Bridge of Sighs, by Lord Byron  NemoR PL OK
23 Italy Part IV: Stories of the Italian artists: Historical note  Roger PL OK
24 Cimabue, the father of painting (1240-1302), by Clara Erskine Clement  neecheelok70 PL OK
25 Giotto and his ''O'' (1276-1336), by Clara Erskine Clement  WiltedScribe PL OK
26 Stories of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), by Giorgio Vasari  mightyfelix PL OK
27 Padre Bandelli proses to the duke Ludovico Sforza about Leonardo da Vinci, by William Wetmore Story  Lmnei PL OK
28 Michael Angelo and Pope Julius II (1506-1512), by Anna Jameson  neecheelok70 PL OK
29 Michael Angelo and Raphael in the Vatican, by Horace Vernet (France, 1789-1863), painting p. 102  alanmapstone PL OK
30 Raphael and his critic (1483-1520), by Giorgio Vasari  neecheelok70 PL OK
31 Vasari's memories of Titian (1477-1576), by Giorgio Vasari  neecheelok70 PL OK
32 Italy Part V: Modern Italy: Historical note  adr6090 PL OK
33 When Napoleon crossed the Alps (1800), by John S. C. Abbott  neecheelok70 PL OK
34 How Italy became a united country (1848-1861), by Louise Creighton  adr6090 PL OK
35 The forced recruit, Solferino, 1859, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning  adr6090 PL OK
36 Garibaldi and his prisoner (1860), by Felicia Buttz Clark  adr6090 PL OK
37 France Part I: In the dark ages: Historical note  knotyouraveragejo PL OK
38 The Christmas of 496, by J. C. Bateman  neecheelok70 PL OK
39 The famous victory of Charles Martel (732), by A. W. Grube  neecheelok70 PL OK
40 The lament of Charlemagne for Roland (about 780), translated by Isabel Butler  neecheelok70 PL OK
41 Charlemagne, emperor of the West (800), by A. W. Grube  neecheelok70 PL OK
42 Rollo the Viking (885), by Eva March Tappan  neecheelok70 PL OK
43 Saint Louis opening the prisons of his realm, by Luc Olivier Merson (French painter, 1846-), painting p. 172  Foon PL OK
44 France Part II: Stories of the Hundred Years' War: Historical note  knotyouraveragejo PL OK
45 The battle of Crécy (1346), by Sir John Froissart  Denisette PL OK
46 How Queen Philippa saved the burghers (1347), by Sir John Froissart  ColleenMc PL OK
47 The coming of the Maid of Orléans (1428) by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller  alanmapstone moniaqua Kitty WiltedScribe bluechien NemoR PL OK
48 Coronation of Charles VII at Rheims, by Jules Eugène Lenepveu (from a painting in the Pantheon at Paris), painting p. 192  Lmnei PL OK
49 The death of Jeanne d'Arc (1431), by Mary Rogers Bangs  neecheelok70 PL OK
50 France Part III: France under the Valois kings: Historical note  knotyouraveragejo PL OK
51 Where Louis XI said his prayers (about 1483), by Victor Hugo  neecheelok70 PL OK
52 Anne of Brittany and her court (1476-1514), by Catherine Charlotte  thestorygirl PL OK
53 The death of the chevalier Bayard (1524), from the old chronicles  neecheelok70 PL OK
54 Francis I and Charles V in St. Denis, by Antoine Jean Gros (French artist, 1771-1835), painting p. 226  Lmnei PL OK
55 King Francis I and the goldsmith (1540), by Benvenuto Cellini  ColleenMc PL OK
56 France Part IV: The house of Bourbon: Historical note  knotyouraveragejo PL OK
57 The battle of Ivry (1590), by Thomas Babington Macaulay  ColleenMc PL OK
58 Henry IV and Marie de Médici, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish painter, 1574-1642), painting p. 240  Foon PL OK
59 Cardinal Richelieu and his enemy (about 1640), by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton  moniaqua Kitty WiltedScribe bluechien NemoR Foon PL OK
60 In the days of the Fronde (1648), by Alexandre Dumas  neecheelok70 PL OK
61 The death of Louis XIV (1715), by Julie Pardoe  neecheelok70 PL OK
62 Louis XIV and Molière, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French painter, born 1824, died 1904), painting p. 270  WiltedScribe PL OK
63 France Part V: On the eve of the French Revolution: Historical note  knotyouraveragejo PL OK
64 When Marie Antoinette entered Paris (1773)  adr6090 PL OK
65 How the queen was served, by Madame Campan  Foon PL OK
66 The wardrobe of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan  adr6090 PL OK
67 The fall of the Bastille (1789), by Alexandre Dumas  ColleenMc PL OK
68 The flight of Louis XVI (1791), by Charles Duke Yonge  neecheelok70 PL OK
69 The Marseillaise (1792), by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle  alanmapstone PL OK
70 France Part VI: The reign of Terror: Historical note  knotyouraveragejo PL OK
71 The execution of Louis XVI (1793), by Edmond Biré  ColleenMc PL OK
72 Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie, by Charles Louis Müller (French painter, 1815-1892), painting p. 316  Hypatia PL OK
73 In the revolt of the Vendée (1793), by Victor Hugo  adr6090 PL OK
74 Girondists on their way to the guillotine, by Karl Theodor von Piloty (German artist, 1826-1886), painting p. 326  Hypatia PL OK
75 At the guillotine, by Charles Dickens  Kitty PL OK
76 The fall of Robespierre (1794), by Thomas Carlyle  neecheelok70 PL OK
77 France Part VII: Napoleon Bonaparte: Historical note  Hypatia PL OK
78 The eighteenth Brumaire, by François Bouchot (French artist, 1800-1842), painting p. 347  alanmapstone PL OK
79 The battle of Eylau (1807), by Isaac McLellan  alanmapstone PL OK
80 The retreat from Moscow (1812), by Victor Hugo  adr6090 PL OK
81 The retreat from Moscow, by Adolphe Yvon (French painter, 1817-1893), painting p. 352  alanmapstone PL OK
82 The coming of Louis XVIII (1814), by Louisa Mühlbach  Fishfish PL OK
83 The return of Napoleon from Elba (1815), by Anonymous  Availle PL OK
84 When Napoleon returned from Elba (1815), by Napoleon Bonaparte  mightyfelix PL OK
85 Waterloo (1815), by Victor Hugo  adr6090 PL OK
86 Evening of the battle of Waterloo, by Ernest Crofts (English painter, 1847), painting p. 384  alanmapstone PL OK
87 The death of Napoleon (1821), by Isaac McLellan  alanmapstone PL OK
88 France Part VIII: The Franco-Prussian War: Historical note  knotyouraveragejo PL OK
89 The white flag of Sedan (1870), by Emile Zola  neecheelok70 PL OK
90 One day under the Commune (1871), by John Leighton  neecheelok70 PL OK
91 The defense of Champigny, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (born in Paris, 1848), painting p. 406  Lmnei PL OK
92 The soldiers' dream, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French artist, 1848), painting p. 418  Lmnei PL OK
93 Spain Part I: Under the Romans and the Moors: Historical note  Hypatia PL OK
94 The sacrifice of the people of Saguntum (219 B.C.) by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper  Hypatia PL OK
95 The white hind of Sertorius (about 80 B.C.), by Plutarch  mightyfelix PL OK
96 The challenge of Paulus (about 672 A.D.), by Paulus  Lmnei PL OK
97 King Roderick and the magic tower (709 A.D.), an ancient legend related by Washington Irving  adr6090 PL OK
98 Diego Perez, ''the Pounder'', from an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart  Foon PL OK
99 The Cid and the leper (eleventh century), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart  WiltedScribe PL OK
100 Spain Part II: The reign of Ferdinand and Isabella: Historical note  Hypatia PL OK
101 The elopment of Ferdinand and Isabella (1469), by John S. C. Abbott  Adamsantoni PL OK
102 Torquemada and the catholic king, by Jean Paul Laurens (French artist, 1838), painting p. 458  Hypatia PL OK
103 The surrender of Granada (1492), by Washington Irving  Availle PL OK
104 The governor of the Alhambra and the notary, by Washington Irving  neecheelok70 PL OK
105 A glimpse of Columbus in Spain (1492), by James Fenimore Cooper  realisticspeakers PL OK
106 Columbus at the court of Spain, by Vacslav Brozik (Bohemian artist, 1851-1901), painting p. 482  Hypatia PL OK
107 The return of Columbus (1493), by Washington Irving  Adamsantoni PL OK
108 Spain Part III: Spain at the height of her power: Historical note  Hypatia PL OK
109 The first voyage around the World, by Eva March Tappan  realisticspeakers PL OK
110 The abdication of Charles (1556), by William H. Prescott  Lmnei PL OK
111 The Escurial, by Théophile Gautier, translated by C. F. Bates  alanmapstone PL OK
112 The knight of the windmills, by Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)  adr6090 PL OK
113 Captain Cuellar of the Armada and his troubles (1588), by James Anthony Froude  Hypatia PL OK
114 Spain Part IV: The period of decline: Historical note  adr6090 PL OK
115 Velasquez, the greatest of Spanish painters (1599-1660), by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper  adr6090 PL OK
116 Spanish home life in the seventeenth century, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper  adr6090 PL OK
117 The queen and her superintendent, by Mrs M. G. Quincy Sleeper  Lmnei PL OK
118 The crossing of the Douro (1809), by Charles Lever  catharmaiden PL OK
119 Portugal Part I: The age of chivalry: Historical note  adr6090 PL OK
120 How the first king of Portugal won his kingdom (1139-1185), by Oswald Crawfurd  Leni PL OK
121 The penance of a prince (about 1240), by Edward McMurdo  adr6090 PL OK
122 The coronation of Inez de Castro (about 1347), by Felicia D. Hemans  silverquill PL OK
123 The betrothal of Princess Philippa (1385), by Sir John Froissart  Hypatia PL OK
124 A joust at the court of Portugal (about 1400), by Sir John Froissart  Hypatia PL OK
125 Portugal Part II: Exploration and discovery: Historical note  adr6090 PL OK
126 Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), by John Fiske  Lmnei PL OK
127 The search for Prester John (1486), by John Fiske  Leni PL OK
128 The first voyage to India (1497), by William H. G. Kingston  Leni PL OK
129 How Portugal opened commerce with India (1498), by Jules Verne  BurgundyGrace PL OK
130 The speech of Vasco da Gama to the king of Calicut (1498), by Luis de Camoëns  neecheelok70 PL OK
131 Portugal Part III: The last four centuries: Historical note  adr6090 PL OK
132 The departure of King Sebastian (1578), an old Spanish ballad, translated by J. G. Lockhart  WiltedScribe PL OK
133 The earthquake at Lisbon (1755), by Rev. Charles Davy  adr6090 PL OK
134 A Portuguese shooting party (1880), by Oswald Crawfurd  Kitty PL OK