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French Revolution #0001: The Fall of the French Monarchy, 1787-1792
by Michel Vovelle  Publisher Comments ‘Cambridge should be warmly congratulated on their decision to make [the revolutionary decade volumes] available in translation. For this is far more than just another general history of the Revolution, roaming across a familiar political canvas...
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The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792--1794
by Graeme Fife Publisher Comments For the audience that made a major bestseller of Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution comes this exhaustively researched, character-driven chronicle of revolutionary terror, its victims, and the young men...
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La Dame D'Esprit: A Biography of Marquise Du Chatelet
by Judith P Zinsser Publisher Comments Zinsser vividly explores how the Marquise Du Chatelet transformed herself from courtier, wife, and mother into one of the leading intellects of the French Enlightenment....
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Lectures on the French Revolution
by John Emerich Acton Publisher Comments This collection of the lectures of Lord Acton on the French Revolution comprises a disciplined, thorough, and elegant history of the actual events of the bloody episode. It is as thorough a record as could be constructed in Acton's time of the actions of...
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Radicals
by Leigh Ann Whaley Publisher Comments This book rewrites the history of the revolution from the viewpoint of the men who lay at its core. The radicals-- these men campaigned for ever more far-reaching reforms both in the legislative assemblies and without....
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Further Reflections on the Revolution In
by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments In his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Edmund Burke excoriated French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France's venerable institutions and way of life. But his war against the French intelligentsia did not end there,...
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California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy #9: Peasants and King in Burgundy: Agrarian Foundations of French Absolutism
by Hilton L Root Publisher Comments The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the...
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Bourbons: The History of a Dynasty
by J.h Shennan Publisher Comments Henry IV, king of Gascony, became king of France after the murder of the last Valois in 1589. This book tells how the Bourbon rulers who followed, including Louis XIV, the Sun King, and Louis XV, presided over a period when France was the leading...
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Passionate Minds: Emilie Du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
by David Bodanis Publisher Comments It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, a beguiling (and married) aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton's arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein's theories. In an era when women were rarely permitted any...
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Athenais the Life of Louis Xivs Mistress
by Lisa Hilton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-341) and index....
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Vive La Revolution: A Stand-Up History of the French Revolution
by Mark Steel Publisher Comments <BR>"Thank goodness . . . for Mark Steel. Engagingly lighthearted while clearly thorough, the author has taken the events of the French Revolution and given them a human face, as well as neatly poking fun at the over-pomposity with which our recent...
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The Man in the Iron Mask: The True Story of the Most Famous Prisoner in History and the Four Musketeers
by Roger Macdonald Publisher Comments Alexandre Dumas said that his famous Three Musketeers never existed, but Athos, Aramis and Porthos were flesh and blood. Their supposedly fictional duel with Cardinal Richelieu's guards actually took place in 1640 and Charles d'Artagnan, a teenager on...
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis's accomplishments and follies, exploring in detail his intimate...
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A Short History of the French Revolution
by Jeremy D Popkin Publisher Comments /x6003B-0, 0-13-060032-6, Popkin, Jeremy D., A Short History of the French Revolution, 3/Ex/" Written for today's readers, this up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Period offers a shorter, concise alternative to the longer, detailed...
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Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution
by Gita May Publisher Comments The story of Marie Antoinette's portraitist, a remarkable woman living in dangerous times...
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The Private Life of Marie Antoinette
by Madame Campan Publisher Comments The facts of Marie Antoinette's life are well documented. Daughter of the Empress of Austria; marriage to the prince of France; the ill-fated Affair of the Necklace, tales of excess and infidelity; her flight from Paris; her execution by guillotine...
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Louis XIV and Absolutism
by William Beik Synopsis This collection of documents with commentary explores the meaning of absolute monarchy by examining how Louis XIV of France became one of Europe's most famous and successful rulers. It aims to illustrate the complex dynamics of political power during...
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The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century
by Daniel Roche Publisher Comments In his collective portrait of the common people, Roche offers a rich and fascinating description of their lives--their housing, food, dress, financial dealings, literature, domestic life, and leisure time. Roche's highly readable style and use of...
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
by Simon Schama Publisher Comments Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations....
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Virtue and Terror (Revolution!)
by Maximilien Robespierre Publisher Comments In this dazzling new series, philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek interrogates key writings on revolution. Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever...
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