Glory and Terror : Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0415926165
ISBN-13
9780415926164
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 29th, 2001
Print length
250 Pages
Weight
544 grams
Ksh 30,600.00
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Glory and Terror is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution, looking at, among others, the burial of the corpse of Louis XVI and the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre.
Glory and Terror is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets: * the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau * the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire''s body to the Pantheon * the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe * the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.
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