Children of the Revolution
Subtitle: the French, 1799-1914
By: Robert Gildea.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780674032095
Subjects: France -- History -- 1789-1900; France -- Politics and government -- 1789-1900; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence
Description: "For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon's final defeat, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent king, emperor, or president could heal. Children of the Revolution follows the ensuing generations who repeatedly tried and failed to come up with a stable regime after the trauma of 1789. The process encouraged fresh and often murderous oppositions between those who were for, and those who were against, the Revolution's values. Bearing the scars of their country's bloody struggle, and its legacy of deeply divided loyalties, the French lived the long nineteenth century in the shadow of the revolutionary age."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 444-519) and index.