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Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914

By Robert Gildea

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2009
ISBN
0141016531, 9780141016535
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
9 MB (9536718 bytes)
Pages
560\0
Time added
2013-01-31 05:51:51

Description

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 Honore de Balzac, Robert Gildea's brilliant new history explores every aspect of these rapidly changing times, and the people who lived through them.

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