Children of the Revolution
Author: Gildea, Robert
ISBN: 9780141016535
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 14 Jul 2009
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
The startling story of the French struggle for identity and unity in the bloody aftermath of the Revolution
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 Honore de Balzac, Robert Gildea's brilliant new history explores every aspect of these rapidly changing times, and the people who lived through them.
ISBN: 9780141016535
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 14 Jul 2009
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
The startling story of the French struggle for identity and unity in the bloody aftermath of the Revolution
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 Honore de Balzac, Robert Gildea's brilliant new history explores every aspect of these rapidly changing times, and the people who lived through them.
