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Pokemon! The biggest media franchise in the world. I, like many of my generation, have been a Pokemon fan as long as I can remember. One of my earliest memories is an argument over whether Ash's Pikachu was a girl. (I said he was. He was voiced by a woman, so I think I was ultimately right in a...

La Chanson - Recap "Some women live and die in the shade of their Olive Trees—a lifetime of peace and simplicity, of obscurity and calm. This is the tale of a woman who wanted more. Who was not content to live a peaceful life as a housewife or a nun. Who had a vision for the future, a...

Prologue: The World (XXI) "In Paris, the city is alive once more. It is the 50th celebration - and 51st anniversary of the event - of Le Jour de la Révolution, or The Day of the Revolution. From now to the Bastille Day, the whole of France will celebrate revolution and a strong commitment to...

The Holy King (Charles VIII SI) Charles of Valois, heir to the throne of France - 12 years old Paris - July 1482 Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian master of the son of the king of France, was instructing the children in the war strategies followed by the French against England. The young...

For he sang of a wheel returning, And the mire trod back to mire, And how red hells and golden heavens Are castles in the fire. IN THE SHADOW OF THE EAGLE The Regent Imperial is sworn in before the Imperial Parliament, June 1816 Inspired by Springtime of Nations...

The Great Orator-The Presidency of Daniel Webster By Odinson Webster: 1841-1845 President Daniel Webster 1841-1845 The election of William Harrison was initially hailed as a victory for the American Whigs over their Democratic rivals. However, President Harrison died after only a month...

Revalkyrie Victory was at hand. Another parry, another thrust, and her opponent would be done for. It'd be a close victory, but that just meant people would only talk about it more. A hushed silence, the stares of the crowd, the glare of the lights, her and her fencer foe positioning...

Thread title. I think that it would be an interesting subject to explore.

[While it is NOT necessary to play, see here for a rough timeline of the Temeraire series (SPOILERS!)] The year is 1821. Napoleon I lies on his deathbed on St. Helena from cancer, and Joseph Pachacuti Yupanqui Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, is ten years old. His mother Anahuarque Inca rules...

This fascinating documentary uses the autobiographical novel A Dam Against The Pacific by Marguerite Duras as a basis for deconstructing the colonial system of racial domination in French Indochina. Beneath the carefully curated glamour of French rule was a brutal system of exploitation in which...

Imperator Francorum: A Napoleon II Timeline “I envy that boy. Glory is waiting there for him: I had to run after her. I will have been Phillip: he will be Alexander. He has only to extend an arm, and the world is his.” --Napoleon I's remarks about his son to Marshal Ouidnot...

Defending the Third Republic: A Battle of France RP It is 1940. The Second World War has been fought in the East to a bitter end, Polish troops fighting both the Germans and the Soviet Union and desperately attempting to evacuate what they could. In the north, the Norwegians fought, the...

Sufficient Velocity introduction Are you are inflicting this on another Forum? Yes, I am. Even though it is deeply flawed? Possibly, I thought that if I put it here then more people would notice it. A smaller pond? I suppose… The original link for AH.com is here: Over by Christmas – a TL

The Hunters Tales: Adam felt the cold chill of the winter winds on his back, even as his coat blocked much of it. It seemed the wind would be picking up soon in the night. The entire land smelled of mud and death. No Man's land. Never a more fitting name to a place so horrid, so caked in the...

I've been posting in chatrooms about my first time attempting a Nuzlocke, so I thought ought to make a thread where I can 'log' all my progress (and regress) down. I should say this is gonna be a very bare-bones Let's Play in a journal format, I'm not planning to post screenshots or videos...

"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories." -Napoléon Bonaparte ||||||La Chanson de la Victoire|||||| Once upon a time, there was a man who rose from nothing to cast a shadow...

Transcending history and time, legends bring to us our basic humanity: the grand ideals, triumphs and tragedies of heroes whose existence is less truth than it is meaning. They are the founding blocks of our communities, which bring us together within unreal memories. We each know of one story...

Empire Des Egaux The year is 1810 France rolls about in her sleep while her children bicker around her. The last crowned heads look East and South, towards the untouched lands therein. Albion burns. The children of Africa fight tooth and nail with the first Republic and the children of...

Empire Des Egaux The year is 1810 and Marianne proudly rules over the conquered continent of Europe. The last traces of the ancien regime west of the Elbe and the Danube have been destroyed, the musty old monarchies of Austria and Prussia forced into retreat. In France the failure of the...

Vichy France and its theoretical colonial empire are ISOT'd from 11:59PM, 10 July 1940 to 11:59PM, 10 July 1980. How do the 1980 powers react?

What and how did people eat before modernity? Did people eat out before modernity? Where did you go to eat out? Did you have choices? Did they compete with each other? What did you eat once you got there? How did you pay for it? When did people start Tipping? Trying to find answers to these...

Egalite, Fraternite, Liberte A Political RP in the French Revolution Liberty Leads the People, Eugene Delacroix (Preapproved by SV mods) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But most of all, it was a time of upheaval, where France was open to being remade in the image of any...

This idea came to me and I thought it would be interesting to play out so here we are basically we will role play as the government of Vichy France I will be cheif of state Philippe Pétain you will be congressman/women of the National Assembly starting on August,10,1940 one month into there...

SydneyMorningHerald - What if the French had settled Australia first? WAToday - Australia could have been a French Colony Since France did have interest in Australia soon after finding out about it, particularly Tasmania and Western Australia (where some towns still have French names), and...

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