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Threshold of Terror
by Rodney Allen  Publisher Comments The failure of the French Revolution of 1789 to establish stable political institutions based on a liberal constitutional monarchy led to terror, civil war and instability for France and twenty-three years of almost uninterrupted war for the rest of...
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Arnold Publication: Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution
by Alan Forrest Publisher Comments Tensions between Paris and the provinces have played a significant role in French history. This book examines the effect of the French Revolution in the provinces, on the tensions between provincial interests and those of paris, and the mediations of...
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The Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth-Century France
by Jeffrey Ravel Publisher Comments In the tradition of The Return of Martin Guerre, a dramatic tale of false identity, murder, and bigamy that riveted France during the reign of Louis XIV From MIT historian Jeffrey Ravel comes a scandalous tale of imposture that sheds new light on French...
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Family on Trial in Revolutionary France (04 Edition)
by Suzanne Desan Publisher Comments In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how...
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The Great French Revolution 1785 to 1793 Narrated in the Letters of Madame J of the Jacobin Party
by Edouard M Lockroy Publisher Comments 1881. Translated from the French by Miss Martin and an American collaborator. The French politician Lockroy derived this volume on the revolution from the letters of his great-grandmother....
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Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France
by Evelyne Lever Publisher Comments A riveting new biography of the legendary French...
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Terror and Its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France
by Caroline Weber Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index....
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Madame de Pompadour
by Evelyne Lever Publisher Comments A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisons When Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial bourgeoisie that was a world apart...
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Madame Du Barry: The Wages of Beauty
by Joan Haslip Publisher Comments Born the illegitimate daughter of a monk and a seamstress, Madame du Barry rose from poverty to become one of the most powerful and wealthy women of France. A courtesan, she became Louis XV's official mistress and was fêted as one of France's most...
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Threshold of Terror: The Last Hours of the Monarchy in the French Revolution
by Rodney Allen Publisher Comments In this exciting look at the fall of King Louis XVI, Allen looks at the two days in August, 1792, which lead to the King's fall and began the Reign of Terror, during which more than 40,000 people were guillotined....
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The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France
by David Andress Publisher Comments For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an orgy of apparently pointless bloodletting has been the focus of countless reflections on the often malignant...
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Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen of France
by Lisa Hilton Publisher Comments - As biography, as history, as a rich story superbly told, ATHENAIS will appeal to readers of Antonia Fraser, Amanda Foreman, Francine du Plessix Gray, and Alison Weir.- ATHENAIS quickly sold through three hardcover printings....
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Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen
by Pierre Goubert Publisher Comments Between the scholars and the general public exists a real and ever-widening gulf. This book is an attempt to bridge that gulf. Many accepted beliefs about Louis XIV's reign, if not about the king himself, are ripe for reappraisal....
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
by Caroline Weber Publisher Comments In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinettes bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France....
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Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution
by Ted W Margadant Publisher Comments The reordering of France into a new hierarchy of administrative and judicial regions in 1791 unleashed an intense rivalry among small towns for seats of authority, while raising vital issues for the vast majority of the French population. Here Ted...
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Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France
by Christine P Algrant Publisher Comments From her beginnings amid anonymity in early-eighteenth-century Paris, to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles, Madame de Pompadour traces the life of a truly remarkable self-made woman whose astonishing rise confounded the most experienced...
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The Peasantry in the French Revolution
by Peter Jones Publisher Comments This book fills a gap in the literature on the French Revolution, and offers a synthesis that brings together the fruits of two generations' research in the field of French rural and agrarian history. The contention of Georges Lefebvre that the peasantry...
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Portrayals of revolution :images, debates, and patterns of thought on the French Revolution
by Noel Parker Publisher Comments How did the French try to understand their revolution? How have writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portrayed so unprecedented an upheaval? Dr. Parker examines contemporary representations of the Revolution—political rhetoric...
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Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon, 1691-1709: A Shortened Version
by Lucy Norton Synopsis Wit, humor, vitriol and pageantry-the necessary hallmarks for a peer at the French court--also deliver a great read. Saint-Simon regales us with an irreverent, insider's view of his more than 30 years at court, from the later days of Louis XIV to the...
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
by Caroline Weber Publisher Comments In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France....
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