Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution

Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution
ISBN-10
0415926165
ISBN-13
9780415926164
Category
History
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Psychology Press
Author
Antoine de Baecque

Description

Antoine de Baecque takes a look at the very public death of the great orator and libertine, Mirabeau; describes the pageantry of the procession carrying Voltaire's body to the Pantheon; and investigates the sexually-charged myths surrounding the murder of Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, the Princesse de Lamballe. He recreates the tense and awe-inspiring spectacle of Louis XVI's execution, and examines the agonizing final hours of the defeated and disfigured Robespierre."--BOOK JACKET.

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