Hello, I am Matthieu. I am a native resident of South-western France, living in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, part of Medieval Gascony and ancient (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]. It shouldn't be too hard to find me there.
I am playing
Warhammer 40,000 and you can already find me on some forums.
My contributions to wikipedia.
Largely wrote by me, but of course I don't claim exclusivity
If you need information from these books don't hesitate to ask.
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)
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
La Grande Armée. Editions Trésor du patrimoine
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