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The French Revolution and What Went Wrong
Author | : Stephen Clarke |
Publsiher | : Arrow Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1784754374 |
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An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a myth. In 1789, almost no one in France wanted to oust the king, let alone guillotine him. But things quickly escalated until there was no turning back. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks at what went wrong and why France would be better off if they had kept their monarchy.
1000 Years of Annoying the French
Author | : Stephen Clarke |
Publsiher | : McArthur & Co |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2011-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781770870819 |
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The English Channel may be only twenty miles wide, but it’s a thousand years deep. Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war - or at least glowering at each other across what the Brits provocatively call the English Channel. Along the way he explodes a few myths that French historians have been trying to pass off as ‘la vérité’, as he proves that the French did not invent the baguette, or the croissant, or even the guillotine, and would have taken the bubbles out of bubbly if the Brits hadn’t created a fashion for fizzy champagne.Starting with the Norman (not French) Conquest and going right up to the supposedly more peaceful present, when a state visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy becomes a series of hilarious historical insults, it is a light-hearted - but impeccably researched - account of all our great fallings-out. In short, the French are quite right to suspect that the last thousand years have been one long British campaign to infuriate them. And it’s not over yet ...
The French Revolution
Author | : Christopher Hibbert |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2001-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780141927152 |
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Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert’s brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the ‘coup d’etat’ that brought Napoleon to power ten years later. In the process he explains the drama and complexities of this epoch-making era in the compelling and accessible manner he has made his trademark. Writing in The Times, Richard Holmes described the book as ‘A spectacular replay of epic action ...’ while The Good Book Guide called it, ‘Unquestionably the best popular history of the French Revolution’.
Sister Revolutions
Author | : Susan Dunn |
Publsiher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2000-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781429923699 |
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What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today. In 1790, the American diplomat and politician Gouverneur Morris compared the French and American Revolutions, saying that the French "have taken Genius instead of Reason for their guide, adopted Experiment instead of Experience, and wander in the Dark because they prefer Lightning to Light." Although both revolutions professed similar Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality, and justice, there were dramatic differences. The Americans were content to preserve many aspects of their English heritage; the French sought a complete break with a thousand years of history. The Americans accepted nonviolent political conflict; the French valued unity above all. The Americans emphasized individual rights, while the French stressed public order and cohesion. Why did the two revolutions follow such different trajectories? What influence have the two different visions of democracy had on modern history? And what lessons do they offer us about democracy today? In a lucid narrative style, with particular emphasis on lively portraits of the major actors, Susan Dunn traces the legacies of the two great revolutions through modern history and up to the revolutionary movements of our own time. Her combination of history and political analysis will appeal to all who take an interest in the way democratic nations are governed.
An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution
Author | : Mary Wollstonecraft |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1794 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : OSU:32435017640152 |
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The French Revolution
Author | : Ian Davidson |
Publsiher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781847659361 |
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The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was unrepresentative of the real work of the early revolution, which was taking place ten miles west of Paris, in Versailles. There, the nobles, clergy and commoners of France had just declared themselves a republic, toppling a rotten system of aristocratic privilege and altering the course of history forever. The Revolution was led not by angry mobs, but by the best and brightest of France's growing bourgeoisie: young, educated, ambitious. Their aim was not to destroy, but to build a better state. In just three months they drew up a Declaration of the Rights of Man, which was to become the archetype of all subsequent Declarations worldwide, and they instituted a system of locally elected administration for France which still survives today. They were determined to create an entirely new system of government, based on rights, equality and the rule of law. In the first three years of the Revolution they went a long way toward doing so. Then came Robespierre, the Terror and unspeakable acts of barbarism. In a clear, dispassionate and fast-moving narrative, Ian Davidson shows how and why the Revolutionaries, in just five years, spiralled from the best of the Enlightenment to tyranny and the Terror. The book reminds us that the Revolution was both an inspiration of the finest principles of a new democracy and an awful warning of what can happen when idealism goes wrong.
The French Revolution A Very Short Introduction
Author | : William Doyle |
Publsiher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2001-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192853967 |
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Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author | : Alexis de Tocqueville |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105010213986 |
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