Author: Edmond de Goncourt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Histoire de la société française pendant la révolution
The Historians' History of the World: France, 1815-1904, Netherlands
Author: Henry Smith Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Revolutionary Period in Europe (1763-1815)
Author: Henry Eldridge Bourne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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The Gods of Revolution
Author: Christopher Dawson
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813227097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813227097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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Madame Roland: A Biographical Study
Author: Ida M. Tarbell
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Ida M. Tarbell's 'Madame Roland: A Biographical Study' delves into the life of the influential French revolutionary figure, Madame Roland, offering a detailed exploration of her political activism and contributions to the French Revolution. Tarbell's literary style in this biographical work is characterized by meticulous research and a narrative that brings to life the tumultuous historical period in which Madame Roland lived. The book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the complex social and political forces that shaped Madame Roland's life and legacy. Tarbell's examination of Madame Roland's character and influence offers valuable insights into the role of women in revolutionary movements during the 18th century. Through her engaging prose, Tarbell sheds light on the challenges and triumphs of a remarkable historical figure. I highly recommend 'Madame Roland: A Biographical Study' to readers interested in revolutionary history, female activism, and the intricacies of political power dynamics.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Ida M. Tarbell's 'Madame Roland: A Biographical Study' delves into the life of the influential French revolutionary figure, Madame Roland, offering a detailed exploration of her political activism and contributions to the French Revolution. Tarbell's literary style in this biographical work is characterized by meticulous research and a narrative that brings to life the tumultuous historical period in which Madame Roland lived. The book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the complex social and political forces that shaped Madame Roland's life and legacy. Tarbell's examination of Madame Roland's character and influence offers valuable insights into the role of women in revolutionary movements during the 18th century. Through her engaging prose, Tarbell sheds light on the challenges and triumphs of a remarkable historical figure. I highly recommend 'Madame Roland: A Biographical Study' to readers interested in revolutionary history, female activism, and the intricacies of political power dynamics.
French Salons
Author: Steven D. Kale
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801883866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Challenging many of the conclusions of recent historiography, including the depiction of salonnières as influential power brokers, French Salons offers an original, penetrating, and engaging analysis of elite culture and society in France before, during, and after the Revolution.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801883866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Challenging many of the conclusions of recent historiography, including the depiction of salonnières as influential power brokers, French Salons offers an original, penetrating, and engaging analysis of elite culture and society in France before, during, and after the Revolution.
Theatre and State in France, 1760-1905
Author: Frederick William John Hemmings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521450888
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Relations between theatre and state were seldom more fraught in France than in this period. F. W. J. Hemmings traces the vicissitudes of this perennial conflict.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521450888
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Relations between theatre and state were seldom more fraught in France than in this period. F. W. J. Hemmings traces the vicissitudes of this perennial conflict.
The Invention of the Restaurant
Author: Rebecca L. Spang
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674241770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize “Witty and full of fascinating details.” —Los Angeles Times Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the answer, Rebecca Spang takes us back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a quasi-medicinal bouillon not unlike the bone broths of today. This is a book about the French revolution in taste—about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, changing the social life of the world in the process. We see how over the course of the Revolution, restaurants that had begun as purveyors of health food became symbols of aristocratic greed. In the early nineteenth century, the new genre of gastronomic literature worked within the strictures of the Napoleonic state to transform restaurants yet again, this time conferring star status upon oysters and champagne. “An ambitious, thought-changing book...Rich in weird data, unsung heroes, and bizarre true stories.” —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker “[A] pleasingly spiced history of the restaurant.” —New York Times “A lively, engrossing, authoritative account of how the restaurant as we know it developed...Spang is...as generous in her helpings of historical detail as any glutton could wish.” —The Times
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674241770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize “Witty and full of fascinating details.” —Los Angeles Times Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the answer, Rebecca Spang takes us back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a quasi-medicinal bouillon not unlike the bone broths of today. This is a book about the French revolution in taste—about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, changing the social life of the world in the process. We see how over the course of the Revolution, restaurants that had begun as purveyors of health food became symbols of aristocratic greed. In the early nineteenth century, the new genre of gastronomic literature worked within the strictures of the Napoleonic state to transform restaurants yet again, this time conferring star status upon oysters and champagne. “An ambitious, thought-changing book...Rich in weird data, unsung heroes, and bizarre true stories.” —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker “[A] pleasingly spiced history of the restaurant.” —New York Times “A lively, engrossing, authoritative account of how the restaurant as we know it developed...Spang is...as generous in her helpings of historical detail as any glutton could wish.” —The Times
Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife
Author: Mechele Leon
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298910
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
From 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of Molière’s works. After 1791, his plays were performed in new theatres all over Paris by new actors, before audiences new to his works. Both his plays and his image took on new dimensions. In Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife, Mechele Leon convincingly demonstrates how revolutionaries challenged the ties that bound this preeminent seventeenth-century comic playwright to the Old Regime and provided him with a place of honor in the nation’s new cultural memory. Leon begins by analyzing the performance of Molière’s plays during the Revolution, showing how his privileged position as royal servant was disrupted by the practical conditions of the revolutionary theatre. Next she explores Molière’s relationship to Louis XIV, Tartuffe, and the social function of his comedy, using Rousseau’s famous critique of Molière as well as appropriations of George Dandin in revolutionary iconography to discuss how Moliérean laughter was retooled to serve republican interests. After examining the profusion of plays dealing with his life in the latter years of the Revolution, she looks at the exhumation of his remains and their reentombment as the tangible manifestation of his passage from Ancien Régime favorite to new national icon. The great Molière is appreciated by theatre artists and audiences worldwide, but for the French people it is no exaggeration to say that the Father of French Comedy is part of their national soul. By showing how he was represented, reborn, and reburied in the new France—how the revolutionaries asserted his relevance for their tumultuous time in ways that were audacious, irreverent, imaginative, and extreme—Leon clarifies the important role of theatrical figures in preserving and portraying a nation’s history.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587298910
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
From 1680 until the French Revolution, when legislation abolished restrictions on theatrical enterprise, a single theatre held sole proprietorship of Molière’s works. After 1791, his plays were performed in new theatres all over Paris by new actors, before audiences new to his works. Both his plays and his image took on new dimensions. In Molière, the French Revolution, and the Theatrical Afterlife, Mechele Leon convincingly demonstrates how revolutionaries challenged the ties that bound this preeminent seventeenth-century comic playwright to the Old Regime and provided him with a place of honor in the nation’s new cultural memory. Leon begins by analyzing the performance of Molière’s plays during the Revolution, showing how his privileged position as royal servant was disrupted by the practical conditions of the revolutionary theatre. Next she explores Molière’s relationship to Louis XIV, Tartuffe, and the social function of his comedy, using Rousseau’s famous critique of Molière as well as appropriations of George Dandin in revolutionary iconography to discuss how Moliérean laughter was retooled to serve republican interests. After examining the profusion of plays dealing with his life in the latter years of the Revolution, she looks at the exhumation of his remains and their reentombment as the tangible manifestation of his passage from Ancien Régime favorite to new national icon. The great Molière is appreciated by theatre artists and audiences worldwide, but for the French people it is no exaggeration to say that the Father of French Comedy is part of their national soul. By showing how he was represented, reborn, and reburied in the new France—how the revolutionaries asserted his relevance for their tumultuous time in ways that were audacious, irreverent, imaginative, and extreme—Leon clarifies the important role of theatrical figures in preserving and portraying a nation’s history.
The Historians' History of the World
Author: Henry Smith Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description