Glory and Terror - Antoine De Baecque - Routledge, 2002

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Glory and Terror
Seven Deaths Under The French Revolution
di Antoine De Baecque

    Editore: Routledge
    Traduttore: Mandell, Charlotte
    EAN: 9780415926171
    ISBN: 0415926173
    Pagine: 247
    Formato: Paperback

"Glory and Terror" is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets:
* the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau
* the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon
* the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe
* the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre.
Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.