Title: 150 preconceived ideas about History - Sylvain Collectif - book
Summary :
No, Henry IV's white horse was not... white!
Do you think that Christopher Columbus discovered America? That Joan of Arc was a shepherdess? That Nero burned down Rome? That Charlemagne invented school? That the marriage of priests has always been forbidden? That the carmagnole is a dance? Well, think again: all of this is FALSE!
By turns legend, cliché, or untruth, preconceived ideas are powerful... and numerous! Written by historians published by Historia, each of these anecdotes reestablishes a historical truth, going against a notion as commonly accepted as it is erroneous. So let yourself be surprised and discover the truth about 100 preconceived ideas about history.
