Children of the Revolution

Children of the Revolution

Robert Gildea

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2009
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Historia social y cultural
ISBN:
9780141016535
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Nineteenth-century France was one of the world’s great cultural beacons renowned for its dazzling literature philosophy art poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed where each generation of the French Revolution’s ’children’ would experience their own wars revolutions and terrors. From soldiers to priests from peasants to Communards from feminists to literary figures such as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac Robert Gildea’s brilliant new history explores every aspect of these rapidly changing times and the people who lived through them.

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