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Paris Révolutionnaire
Au coeur du Paris de la Révolution, G. Lenotre applique les recettes qui ont fait de lui le maître de la "Petite histoire" : art du récit relevé par de nombreuses anecdotes puisées dans des textes rares ou des archives, écriture de véritables reportages sur la vie quotidienne de l'époque, les hommes et les lieux emblématiques de la Révolution. Sont tour à tour, et notamment, racontés avec brio : Robespierre, les Tuileries, le 10 août, l'Abbaye, Charlotte Corday, Danton, le Club des Jacobins, les cordeliers et la Conciergerie.
Un immense succès de librairie jamais édité en poche.
432 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 20, 2014
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September 19, 2022
One of G. Lenôtre's (the pen name for Théodore Gosselin) many works on the French Revolution and French history, "Paris in the Revolution" is a collection of stories and charming descriptions of important events of the French Revolution, from the assassination of Marat to the execution of Fouquier-Tinville. It is written in a nineteenth-century style, very different from today. It's not a complete blow-by-blow account of the events but a description of some of the principal episodes by a professional historian trying to separate fact from legend (and there is a lot of myth and legend surrounding the French Revolution). The reader should already have a working knowledge of the main events of the French Revolution, otherwise he will be lost.
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