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description: This book is a unique history of the French Revolution - a colorful insightful and impassioned recounting of the events that signaled the birth of modern France and indeed the modern world. In the space of just a few years King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette descended from immense popularity and unquestionable power to a place on the scaffold. Beginning with the storming of the Bastille the government of France went from oligarchy to near anarchy and finally to the formation of a republic. Along the way the names of the major players - from Marat and Robespierre to Talleyrand and Mirabeau - were etched into the history of France as well as the rest of the world. Award-winning historian and biographer Olivier Bernier has turned to primary sources - including the correspondence of Marie Antoinette the journals of the governess of the royal children eyewitness accounts and newspapers and journals of the time - to make sense of the rapid and profound change the Revolution incited. Words of Fire Deeds of Blood is a stirring account of one of the most fascinating and significant periods in history.
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title: Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood: France in Revolution
publisher: New Word City, Inc.