Author: Antoine de Baecque
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136692010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Glory and Terror is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets: * the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau * the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon * the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe * the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.
Glory and Terror
Author: Antoine de Baecque
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136692010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Glory and Terror is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets: * the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau * the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon * the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe * the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136692010
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Glory and Terror is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets: * the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau * the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon * the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe * the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.
The Maclure Collection of French Revolutionary Materials
Author: James D. Hardy, Jr.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Complete catalogue and index of one of the largest collections of its kind of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic newspapers pamphlets and official publications covering the years 1789-1815. Over 20,000 listings are preceded by an introduction giving a history of the collection, a survey of other notable French Revolution collections, and a biographical essay on William S. Maclure. William S. Maclure (1763-1840) was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, a radical social reformer, and our first scientific geologist. His huge collection of French Revolutionary publications is one of the greatest libraries of its kind to be formed during the period of the Revolution. Maclure bestowed the collection on the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural Sciences in 1821, and the Academy in turn gave the collection to the Historical Society of Philadelphia, In 1949 it was acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Complete catalogue and index of one of the largest collections of its kind of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic newspapers pamphlets and official publications covering the years 1789-1815. Over 20,000 listings are preceded by an introduction giving a history of the collection, a survey of other notable French Revolution collections, and a biographical essay on William S. Maclure. William S. Maclure (1763-1840) was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, a radical social reformer, and our first scientific geologist. His huge collection of French Revolutionary publications is one of the greatest libraries of its kind to be formed during the period of the Revolution. Maclure bestowed the collection on the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural Sciences in 1821, and the Academy in turn gave the collection to the Historical Society of Philadelphia, In 1949 it was acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Discours prononcé ... à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de la juste punition du dernier roi des Français ...
The French Revolution
Author: Swann Galleries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : fr
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : fr
Pages : 160
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Discours A L'Occasion de L'Anniversaire de La Juste Punition Du Dernier Roi Des Francais...
Author: Vercoustre-B
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782012941854
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782012941854
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 38
Book Description
Catalogue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dickson White
Author: Cornell University. Library. President White Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A collection of riddles focusing on the Old West.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A collection of riddles focusing on the Old West.
Catalogue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dickson White
Author: Cornell University. Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description