booklady’s Reviews > Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Volume 1 > Status Update
booklady
is on page 316 of 412
This is why I like reading so many different books on a topic. In all the other books on the French Revolution, I do recall anyone mentioning the killing of the game* of seigneurs, nor explaining about the rural insurrections, e.g., defaced coats of arms on carriages or church pews, attacks on grain transports, of the spring of 1789.
*I thought at first, they killed the hares to eat, but it was just in protest.
— Aug 29, 2025 07:25AM
*I thought at first, they killed the hares to eat, but it was just in protest.
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booklady
is on page 212 of 412
'Self-portrait' of a breathtakingly beautiful woman identified as Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, royal portrait painter. However when I went on-line to get a link to show this painting, I found this instead, also interesting and pretty, but not a painting of a classic beauty. So, who is the beautiful woman on page 212? Good question!
— Aug 18, 2025 09:03AM
booklady
is on page 154 of 412
Nothing in his Confessions - not the bald admission of the abandonment of his (5) children, of his various addictions to masturbation and masochism, his share in a ménage à trois with Mme de Warens and her herbalist - nothing could shake their faith in his essential moral purity.
What?! Moral purity? Yes, that's what the books says!
— Aug 05, 2025 06:45AM
What?! Moral purity? Yes, that's what the books says!
booklady
is on page 154 of 412
Rousseau was one of the original cult heroes, but not until death. Before that, he suffered a deal of vilification. Once dead, his papers were bought up, his words quoted, his home/land turned into a pilgrimage site and even his banned works reissued and read.
— Aug 05, 2025 06:41AM
booklady
is on page 7 of 412
Attempting to galvanize a country already under occupation in 1815, Napolean, who had been the Revolution's most enthusiastic gravedigger, tried to wake it from the tomb. Wrapping himself in revolutionary slogans and emblems, he tried to invoke the fear and comradeship of 1792: la patrie en danger.
— May 21, 2025 01:19PM
