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Book Synopsis The Journal of a Spy in Paris During the Reign of Terror, January-July, 1794 by : Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher
Download or read book The Journal of a Spy in Paris During the Reign of Terror, January-July, 1794 written by Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1895 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The following fragment appears to be part of the journal of an English spy in Paris, kept during the terrible months of January to July, 1794."--Page [v].
Book Synopsis The Fall of Robespierre by : Colin Jones
Download or read book The Fall of Robespierre written by Colin Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced.
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Book Synopsis The Journal of a Spy in Paris During the Reign of Terror, January-july, 1794 by : Raoul Hesdin
Download or read book The Journal of a Spy in Paris During the Reign of Terror, January-july, 1794 written by Raoul Hesdin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have in "The Journal of a Spy in Paris" a genuine fragment, appearing to be part of the journal of an English spy in Paris, kept during the terrible months of January to July, 1794. "Raoul Hesdin" is the name written upon the brown paper cover of the hook. The Girondists have fallen and the Maximum Laws have just been passed at the point where the diary, as it exists, begins. During the seven months, from December, 1793, to July, 1794, is occurring the steady elimination of parties and individuals bv Robespierre for his own benefit. The followers of Hebert fall in March, those of Danton in April. Each partly leaves, however, a "tail," who gradually unites with those members of the committees who are themselves threatened, to work the Revolution of Thermidor, the downfall of Robespierre and the beginning of the end of the Reign of Terror. It is through this most intense, most terrible period of the French Revolution that Hesdin's diary, as published, runs. From day to day he jots down in crisp, trenchant phrases events as he sees them and knows them—political gossip of the Jacobin Club, clean-cut delineations of the ruling spirits in the Revolution, Robespierre, St. Just, Couthon, Billaud and Barere; vivid pictures of the guillotine horrors, municipal extortions and the filth and misery in Paris. It is a series of pen-pictures, among the most vivid of which are the descriptions of the horrible famine in Paris, the extent of vice, the state of art and literature, the horrors of the executions, judicial methods under the Terror, municipal extortions and briberies. —Philadelphia Press
Book Synopsis Paris in the Terror: June 1793-July 1794 by : Stanley Loomis
Download or read book Paris in the Terror: June 1793-July 1794 written by Stanley Loomis and published by Philadelphia : Lippincott. This book was released on 1964 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Revolutionary history told through the lives of some of its most influential personages, beginning with Charlotte Corday, assassin of Jean-Paul Marat. Mme. Manon Roland, Georges-Jaques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, they all met violent deaths in a terror which dominated Paris and which the three, with Marat and a few others, largely engineered.
Download or read book Robespierre written by Peter McPhee and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793–94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.
Book Synopsis Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being by : Jonathan Smyth
Download or read book Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being written by Jonathan Smyth and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 compulsory political event, this book redefines its importance as a hugely popular national event. Hitherto unused or disregarded source material is used to offer new perspective to the national reaction to Robespierre's creation of the Festival and of his search for a new republican morality. It is the first ever detailed study in English of this area of French Revolutionary history, the first in any language since 1988 and will be welcomed by scholars and students of this period.
Book Synopsis The Journal of a Spy in Paris by : Raoul Hesdin
Download or read book The Journal of a Spy in Paris written by Raoul Hesdin and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fatal Purity written by Ruth Scurr and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from lawyer to revolutionary leader. This is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.
Book Synopsis The Journal of a Spy in Paris by : Raoul Hesdin
Download or read book The Journal of a Spy in Paris written by Raoul Hesdin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of a Spy in Paris: During the Reign of Terror, January-July, 1794 June, 1794, did little to compensate for the continued success of the French Republic on land. The defeats of the Vendéens, and the surrender of Toulon in December, 1793. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Journal of a Spy in Paris During the Reign of Terror, January-July, 1794 by : C. R. L. 1857-1934 Fletcher
Download or read book The Journal of a Spy in Paris During the Reign of Terror, January-July, 1794 written by C. R. L. 1857-1934 Fletcher and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Glorious First of June 1794 by : Mark Lardas
Download or read book The Glorious First of June 1794 written by Mark Lardas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As 1794 opened, Revolutionary France stood on a knife's edge of failure. Its army and navy had been shaken by the revolution, with civil war and famine taking its toll on their resources. Seeking to bring a revitalizing supply of food from its Caribbean colonies and the United States, the French government decided to organize a massive convoy to bring the New World's bounty to France. However, in order to succeed in their mission, the French Navy would have to make a deadly crossing over the North Atlantic, an ocean patrolled by the Royal Navy, the most powerful navy force in the world, whose sailors were eager to inflict a damaging defeat on Revolutionary France and win their fortune in prize money. Illustrated throughout with stunning full-colour artwork, this is the full story of the only fleet action during the Age of Fighting Sail fought in the open ocean, hundreds of miles from shore. Taking place over the course of a month, the inevitable battle was to be a close-run affair, with both sides claiming victory. To the French, it was le Bataille du 13 prairial, a notable day in their new, scientific Revolutionary calendar. For the British, it was the Glorious First of June.
Book Synopsis To Quell the Terror: The Mystery of the Vocation of the Sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne Guillotined July 17, 1794 by : William Bush
Download or read book To Quell the Terror: The Mystery of the Vocation of the Sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne Guillotined July 17, 1794 written by William Bush and published by ICS Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the dramatic true story of the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, martyred during the French Revolution's "Great Terror," and known to the world through their fictional representation in Gertrud von Le Fort's Song at the Scaffold and Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. At the height of the French Revolution's "Great Terror," a community of sixteen Carmelite nuns from Compiègne offered their lives to restore peace to the church and to France. Ten days after their deaths by the guillotine, Robespierre fell, and with his execution on the same scaffold the Reign of Terror effectively ended. Had God thus accepted and used the Carmelites' generous self-gift? Through Gertrud von Le Fort's modern novella, Song at the Scaffold, and Francis Poulenc's famed opera, Dialogues of the Carmelites, (with its libretto by Georges Bernanos), modern audiences around the world have become captivated by the mysterious destiny of these Compiègne martyrs, Blessed Teresa of St. Augustine and her companions. Now, for the first time in English, William Bush explores at length the facts behind the fictional representations, and reflects on their spiritual significance. Based on years of research, this book recounts in lively detail virtually all that is known of the life and background of each of the martyrs, as well as the troubled times in which they lived. The Compiègne Carmelites, sustained by their remarkable prioress, emerge as distinct individuals, struggling as Christians to understand and respond to an awesome calling, relying not on their own strength but on the mercy of God and the guiding hand of Providence. The book includes an index and 15 photos.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution by : David Andress
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution written by David Andress and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations of academic thinking on key topics, along with stimulating and provocative interpretations and suggestions for future research directions. Placing core dimensions of the history of the French Revolution in their transnational and global contexts, the contributors demonstrate that revolutionary times demand close analysis of sometimes tiny groups of key political actors - whether the king and his ministers or the besieged leaders of the Jacobin republic - and attention to the deeply local politics of both rural and urban populations. Identities of class, gender and ethnicity are interrogated, but so too are conceptions and practices linked to citizenship, community, order, security, and freedom: each in their way just as central to revolutionary experiences, and equally amenable to critical analysis and reflection. This volume covers the structural and political contexts that build up to give new views on the classic question of the 'origins of revolution'; the different dimensions of personal and social experience that illuminate the political moment of 1789 itself; the goals and dilemmas of the period of constitutional monarchy; the processes of destabilisation and ongoing conflict that ended that experiment; the key issues surrounding the emergence and experience of 'terror'; and the short- and long-term legacies, for both good and ill, of the revolutionary trauma - for France, and for global politics.
Book Synopsis The Papers of Alexander Hamilton by : Alexander Hamilton
Download or read book The Papers of Alexander Hamilton written by Alexander Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jacobin Republic Under Fire by : Paul R. Hanson
Download or read book Jacobin Republic Under Fire written by Paul R. Hanson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is time for a major work of synthetic interpretation, and this is what The Jacobin Republic Under Fire offers.".
Book Synopsis The Whiskey Rebellion by : Thomas P. Slaughter
Download or read book The Whiskey Rebellion written by Thomas P. Slaughter and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the rebellion in relation to interregional tensions, international diplomacy, frontier expansion, republican ideology and the social and political conflict of the l780s -1790s.
