Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 Robert Gildea Author

by Robert Gildea

2021-04-07 06:12:44

Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of... Read more
Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars, revolutions and terrors. From soldiers to priests, from peasants to Communards, from feminists to literary figures such as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac, Robert Gildea's brilliant new history explores every aspect of these rapidly changing times, and the people who lived through them. Less

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Print pages560
PublisherPenguin UK
Publication date July 31, 2008
ISBN9780141918525
Robert Gildea is Professor of Modern French History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College....

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