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The most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary, highly entertaining account of a uniquely adventurous and frenzied life. Chateaubriand gives a superb narrative of the major events of his life - which spanned the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era and the uneasy period that led up to the Revolution of 1830.

Originally published: New Orleans, LA; Louisiana State Museum. 1937.

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Personal histories in this collection are easily readable, entertaining and informative recollections of the lives and times of people who helped shape the Mexican mining industry for 6 decades-late 1930'S through early 1990's-and their ties to El Paso. Texas.The histories are grouped into four sections: Texas Miners (engineering graduates of Texas College of Mines prior to 1945); Ex-Patriot Engineers: Mexican National Engineers; and Ex-Patriot Wives. Texas Miners give insights into such events as development of the Nukay mine; discovery of the Hercules iron mine and the Santo Niño discovery at Fresnillo, development of Mexico's barite industry, and formation of the Comission Fomento Minero. Ex-Patriot and Mexican National engineers provide differing views on mining operations and the causes and effects of Mexicanization of the mining industry. Ex-Patriot wives give colorful accounts of conditions and family live in mining camps and foreign adventures.