Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars, revolutions and terrors. From soldiers to priests, from peasants to Communards, from feminists to literary figures such as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac, Robert Gildea's brilliant new history explores every aspect of these rapidly changing times, and the people who lived through them.
ISBN: | 9780141016535 |
Publication date: | 4th June 2009 |
Author: | Robert Gildea |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 560 pages |
Genres: |
European history Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions Social and cultural history |