Philibert Simond: Contribution à l'histoire de la révolution (French Edition)
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Published: Apr 01, 2013
Language: fre
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9782296995697
Description: This book traces the life of Philibert Simond, Savoyard priest who became a member of the Convention. The author, while he was the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal Chambery shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, became interested in this unusual character and tried to rebuild his personal and political route from birth in Rumilly in the current Haute-Savoie, until his death on the scaffolds of Paris in April 1794 through its heyday, when contributed to the first annexation of Savoy to France, in late November 1792. The author gathered information in books unearthed in bookshops and booksellers Savoie and also appealed to official sources at his disposal, including the archives of Savoy. The result is an odyssey through the last days of full power Sardinian on the Savoy and the early stages of the revolutionary period.