Title: Hommes de la liberté
First published: 1900
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].
Subjects: Biography, Revolutionaries, History, Causes and character, France, Revolutionists, Politics and government, Intellectual life, Bastille, Causes
Places: France
Time periods: Revolution, 1789-1799