El futuro era nuestro

Pierre Py, avalado por una rigurosa investigaci n documental en los archivos del Quai d Orsay y en la Secretar a de Relaciones Exteriores de M xico, presenta un panorama que analiza y reconstruye el estado de las relaciones M xico-Francia entre 1910 y 1920; estudia, asimismo, el auge y el declive de la presencia francesa en nuestro pa s en el contexto de la competencia internacional por el control econ mico de los mercados.

A comienzos de 1715, Felipe V protagonizó un sorprendente cambio de rumbo en su política de reformas al relevar a quien hasta ese momento había sido uno de los adalides de los cambios más polémicos de la naciente monarquía borbónica, el otrora poderoso fiscal general del Consejo de Castilla, Melchor Macanaz. Firme defensor de los derechos dinásticos del monarca y enérgico apologista de las competencias y regalías de la corona, ni el rey ni el propio Macanaz pudieron evitar la tragedia. Sin embargo, lejos de caer en el olvido o resignarse a una vida eclipsada por lo que pudo ser, don ...

In this new telling of Mexico’s Second Empire and Louis Napoléon’s installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium—including forces from Crimea to Egypt—to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico’s Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...

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