Mourning Glory: The Will of the French Revolution

by Marie-Hélène Huet

Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history.

Genres: French Revolution

232 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1997

Reviews

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

A slim volume packed with a substantial amount of thought-provoking insight into the thinking of Robespierre and his contemporaries. Although it’s more a series of essays on various issues, there is a certain amount of chronological ordering to the book which shows the development of these ideas from Rousseau to Saint-Just.

The title is from the period toward the end, as the cemeteries were filled and the blood still ran. No one knew what to do with the recent heroes - were they a part of the past to be forgotten? And then there was the reaction.

[vincent alexis ☆ · Rating 3 out of 5]

there were some points that i felt weren’t explained well or jumped to picturesque conclusions from dubious evidence, but there were equally as many points i found compelling. the chapter “graveyard shift” on the role of the dead in the revolution was especially interesting, as was the final chapter on the archetypal legacy of robespierre vs. danton.

[Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love a book that assigns you reading. Now I have to read André on the Freudian origins of the Terror and Przybyszewska's gay Robespierre play. Quite good outside of that too, though. Equipped me to tell the common man exactly what misconceptions he is gaily operating under regarding the FRev and why.