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  • Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being

    The search for a republican morality

    by Jonathan Smyth ...
    Series series Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
    The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being. This day of national celebration was held to inaugurate the new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, and whilst traditionally it has been dismissed as a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Anne Boleyn

    by P. Friedmann ...
    Anne Boleyn entered Henry's life just as he was seeking to discard his wife, Catherine of Aragon, for failing to give him a son. Henry courted Anne, but she refused to yield to his advances until he promised her marriage. At that moment, Anne was his. Driven by his love for a woman who refused him sexual favours unless she was certain of becoming queen, Henry took on the might of the Catholic ... Read more

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  • The French Revolution

    by Ian Davidson ...
    The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom, equality, and authority. Yet it remains an elusive, perplexing historical event. Its significance morphs according to the sympathies of the viewer, who may see it as a series of gory tableaux, a regrettable slide into uncontrolled anarchy—or a radical reshaping of the political ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • French Literature

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Carol Clark ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Boasting one of Western culture's oldest and richest literary traditions, French literature has long been a pioneer of style and innovation. From the farcical comedies of Moliere to the torment of Baudelaire's verse, it has inspired writers and artists everywhere throughout the ages. This comprehensive Beginner's Guide tells French literature's compelling story from the beginning right up to today ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Literary Tour de France

    The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution

    by Robert Darnton ...
    The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclopédie, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789–1792

    by Ambrogio A. Caiani ...
    The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and political practices which ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution

    by Olwen Hufton ...
    Series series Heritage
    The French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But between the people's expectations and the politicians' interpretation of what was needed to construct a new state lay a vast chasm. Olwen H. Hufton explores the responses of two groups of working women – those in rural areas and those in Paris ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book

    by Andrew Pettegree, Paul Nelles ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    This study comprises the proceedings of a conference held in St Andrews in 1999 which gathered some of the most distinguished historians of the French book. It presents the 16th-century book in a new context and provides the first comprehensive view of this absorbing field. Four major themes are reflected here: the relationship between the manuscript tradition and the printed book; an exploration ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Artisans of Glory

    Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France

    by Orest Ranum ...
    Ranum analyzes the canons of writing history and describes the lives and achievements of the royal French historiographers. He examines the manner in which these writers described and, in some sense, created the glory that surrounded the lives of the nobility, hoping by so doing to enhance their own glory. Through studying the careers of these men, the author demonstrates how rhetorical, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Baron D'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France

    by Max Pearson Cushing ...
    Diderot, writing to the Princess Dashkoff in 1771, thus analysed the spirit of his century: Chaque siècle a son esprit qui le caractérise. L'esprit du nôtre semble être celui de la liberté. La première attaque contre la superstition a été violente, sans mesure. Une fois que les hommes ont osé d'une manière quelconque donner l'assaut à la barrière de la religion, cette barrière la plus formidable ... Read more

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  • The Newspaper Press in the French Revolution

    by Hugh Gough ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The French Revolution
    When the ancien régime collapsed during the summer of 1789 the newspaper press was free for the first time in French history. The result was an explosion in the number of newspapers with over 2,000 titles appearing between 1789 and 1799. This study, originally published in 1988, traces the growth of the French Press during this time, showing the importance of the emergence of provincial newspapers ... Read more

    $57.99 USD