Bohemia From The Earliest Times To The Fall Of National Independence In 1620

Download or read book Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 written by C. Edmund Maurice and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bohemia" by C. Edmund Maurice is a book about the mischievous blunder of some fifteenth-century Frenchman, who confused the gypsies who had just arrived in France with the nation which was just then startling Europe by its resistance to the forces of the Empire, has left a deeper mark on the imagination of most of our countrymen than the martyrdom of Hus or even the sufferings of our own Princess Elizabeth. The book is written with an aim to impress on the readers some notable distinctive characters of the Bohemian language, and at the same time to secure the recognition of any places with whose names they are already familiar.