Author: Mona Ozouf
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674298842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals; Ozouf shows us that they were much more than bizarre marginalia to the revolutionary process.