User:MatthieuN

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Hello, I am Matthieu. I am a native resident of South-western France, living in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, part of Medieval Gascony and antic (real one) Aquitaine. My family finds its origin in various places of France including Normandy and Brittany, and I was born in Toulouse.

I have got several different points of interests, first an most obvious is medieval history.

I consider myself level 3 in English skills but Oxford's test ranked me 170/200 and the European Speed one between level 4 and 5 which would be closer to Wikipedia's level 4.

I am an administrator on a forum on modern architecture and urbanism: skyscrapercity.com [1].

My work on wikipedia.

Articles I participated in or enlarged.


My books on history, politic and others:

In French

  • Guerres et Civilisations: De l'Assyrie à l'ère contemporaine - Gérard Chailland. Editions Odile Jacob.
  • Les Celtes - Comité des Amis du Palazzo Grassi. Editions EDDL
  • L'Empire des Plantagenêt - Martin Aurell. Editions Tempus
  • Noblesse de l'Espace Plantagenêt (1154 - 1124) - Table ronde tenue à Poitiers. Editions Civilisations Médiévales. (this one also has parts in English)
  • L'art Gothique: Architecture, Sculpture, Peinture - various authors. Editions Köneman
  • Les Templiers: Une Chevalerie Chrétienne au Moyen Age - Alain Demurger. Editions Seuil
  • Chronologie des Hospitaliers: Ordre de Saint Jean de Jérusalem, de Rhodes et de Malte - Maurice Caron. Editions Atlantica
  • Saint Louis - Gérard Sivéry. Editions Tallandier
  • Philipe le Bel - Silvie le Clech. Editions Tallandier

In English

  • The Next Superpower?: The Rise of Europe and Its Challenge to the United States - Rockwell A. Schnabel & Francis X. Rocca. Editions Rowman and Littlefield.
  • Jesus Was Caesar: On the Julian Origin of Christianity: An Investigative Report - Francesco Carotta.
  • The Angevin Empire - John Gillingham. Editions Arnold.
  • The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066 - 1284 - David Carpenter. Editions Penguin.
  • Capetian France 987 - 1328 - Elizabeth M. Hallam & Judith Everard. Editions Longman.
  • God's War: A New History of the Crusades - Chrystopher Tiermann. Editions Penguin - Allan Lane.
  • The Hundred Years War: England and France at War c.1300 - c.1450 - Christopher Allmand. Editions Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.
  • The Albigensian Crusade - Jonathan Sumption. Editions FF.
  • The Norman Kingdom of Sicily - Donald Matthew. Editions Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
  • Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages - K.W. Nicholls. Editions Lilliput.
  • The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 - Paul Kennedy. Editions Fontana Press.
  • From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism & the Armenian Genocide - Taner Akçam. Editions Zed Books.
  • A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 - Alistair Horne. Editions NYRB.
  • A Few Bloody Noses: The American Revolutionary War - Robert Harvey. Editions Robinson.
  • The American Civil War: The Mighty Scourge of War - Gary W. Gallagher, Stephen D. Engle, Robert K. Krick & Joseph T. Glatthaar. Editions Osprey.
  • The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire - Gregory Fremont-Barnes & Todd Fished. Editions Osprey


My books on computing:

  • Communication, Modems, Télématique Editions Micro Application
  • Dictionnaire d'Informatique by M. Ginguay and A. Lauret. Editions Masson
  • TCP/IP sous Windows NT 4 Editions ENI (Microsoft certified)
  • Novell's guide to NetWare LAN Analysis by Laura Chappell. Editions Novell Press
  • OS/2 2.0: DOS et Windows sous OS/2, Gestionaire de Presentation, Multitache, HPFS..." Editions Micro-Application
  • Architecture des réseaux informatiques tome 1: Les Outils de Communication G. Pujolle & E. Horlait. Editions Eyrolles (I lack the second tome)
  • PowerPC Microprocessor, Architecture, Software, Tools, Applications Editions Design & Elektronik
  • OS/2 2.0 Editions Micro-Application
  • Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL Editions Oracle
  • Oracle 10g Administration by Olivier Heurtel. Editions ENI
  • Apache Version 2: Installation, Administration et Sécurisation by Mikael Pirio. Editions ENI
  • Cisco: Installation, Configuration et Maintenance de Réseaux by Djilali Seba. Editions ENI
  • Windows Server 2003: Planifier et Optimiser une Infrastructure Réseau by Anne Guillon. Editions ENI