The French Revolution
By: by Claude Manceron.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 559
Subjects: Revolutionaries -- France -- Biography.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Biography.
Description: This book is a continuation of Manceron's stunning reconstruction of the rush toward the revolution as seen through a kaleidoscope of anecdotes, over one thousand incidents, and the interlocking of pulbic and private lives. We see familiar characters in a new light through letters, diaries, sermons and speeches. We observe those lives intertwoining, their frustrations and misunderstandings increasing, until they are brough inexorably to that fateful event. [Book jacket].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: Hommes de la liberté.
Table of contents: title: 5. Blood of the Bastille, 1787-1789.