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Author : Reginald Somerset Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
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Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013965010
Author : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
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Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:222162894
Author : HILAIRE. BELLOC
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033594229
Author : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0260677787
Excerpt from Robespierre: A Study Very often I have sat alone at evening before a fire of logs in a room near the Rue St. Honor , and tried to call up for myself the great men who from that air challenged necessity, and, within the screen of their armies, created the modern world. There surrounded me upon such occasions the furniture of their epoch. My eyes rested upon details that were not only in the tradition of the Revolution, but were often used and admired when the Convention was sitting; and all about me, in the severe taste of the French bourgeoisie and in the paucity of ornament that accompanies a certain austere carelessness for fortune, was the atmosphere of those lives to which my thoughts continually turned. The medium in which I attempted to evoke their shadows was their own and was in a fashion my inheritance. About me and in my ears was the clear and sounding life of Paris, nor was my imagination disturbed by any recent memories of privilege, by the sophistries of the modern rich, or by the jargon of the evanescent and false philosophies by whose aid the academies attempt to escape from the traditions of Europe. I was so situated that the justice and endurance of the Republic were as evident as material things, and I knew without any doubt that the stoical temper was, in the fine phrase of a contemporary, the permanent religion of humanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Belloc Hilaire
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0526777591
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Author : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1068898406
Author : Peter McPhee
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300183672
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793–94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004433472
Preliminary Material --Auteurs dans ce Volume /Annie Jourdan --Robespierre au Pluriel. L'homme, sa Politique, sa Morale, ses Discours, ses Images /Annie Jourdan --Robespierre /Patrice Gueniffey --'Je Veux Suivre Ta Trace Vénérée'. Robespierre as a Reincarnation of Rousseau /Nonnan Hampson --Robespierre. Des Principes Révolutionnaires À L'Être Suprême /Lucien Jaume --Robespierre and the Politics of Virtue /David P. Jordan --Les Discours de Robespierre. La Parole au Pouvoir /Annie Jourdan --Robespierre et Marat /Jacques de Cock --Le Robespierrisme de Jaques-Louis David /Philippe Bordes --L'Incorruptible. Considérations Psychanalytiques /Jacques André --Robespierre et la Terreur /Bronislaw Baczko --Le Tableau D'un Cadavre. Les récits D'agonie de Robespierre: Du Cadavre Hideux au Dernier Héros /Antoine de Baecque --Le Dernier Mot de la Révolution. Robespierre et ses Synonymes /Ann Rigney --Checklist of Gradutation Theses Submitted in European Studies at Amsterdam /Annie Jourdan.
Author : Peter McPhee
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300118117
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793-94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived outside wedlock and on the margins of polite provincial society. Exploring how these experiences formed the young lawyer who arrived in Versailles in 1789, the author discovers not the cold, obsessive Robespierre of legend, but a man of passion with close but platonic friendships with women. Soon immersed in revolutionary conflict, he suffered increasingly lengthy periods of nervous collapse correlating with moments of political crisis, yet Robespierre was tragically unable to step away from the crushing burdens of leadership. Did his ruthless, uncompromising exercise of power reflect a descent into madness in his final year of life? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of "the Terror," what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice.
Author : Ruth Scurr
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466805781
"Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read." —Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books Since his execution by guillotine in July 1794, Maximilien Robespierre has been contested terrain for historians. Was he a bloodthirsty charlatan or the only true defender of revolutionary ideals? The first modern dictator or the earliest democrat? Was his extreme moralism a heroic virtue or a ruinous flaw? Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Ruth Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from provincial lawyer to devastatingly efficient revolutionary leader, righteous and paranoid in equal measure. She explores his reformist zeal, his role in the fall of the monarchy, his passionate attempts to design a modern republic, even his extraordinary effort to found a perfect religion. And she follows him into the Terror, as the former death- penalty opponent makes summary execution the order of the day, himself falling victim to the violence at the age of thirty-six. Written with epic sweep, full of nuance and insight, Fatal Purity is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.
Author : Gregory Dart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521020395
This book re-opens the question of Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, by examining the relationship between his confessional writings and his political theory. Gregory Dart argues that by looking at the way in which Rousseau's writings were mediated by the speeches and actions of the French Jacobin statesman Maximilien Robespierre, we can gain a clearer and more concrete sense of the legacy he left to English writers. He shows how the writings of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth and William Hazlitt rehearse and reflect upon the Jacobin tradition in the aftermath of the French revolutionary Terror.
Author : Jonathan Smyth
Publisher : Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : France
ISBN : 1526103788
This volume explores Robespierre's vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state religion of the new French Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. It redefines the importance of the Festival in the development of the Revolution.
Author : Jonathan Smyth
Publisher : Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : France
ISBN : 1526103796
Explores Robespierre's vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state religion of the new French Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. It redefines the importance of the Festival in the development of the Revolution.
Author : Otto Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781351492690
It is a perverse but almost inescapable phenomenon in the history of violent revolutions that after the first heroic days a colorless bureaucrat will inherit the mantle of leadership. In the Russian Revolution, Lenin was followed by a plodding Stalin rather than a dazzling Trotsky. Even after the American Revolution the celebrated Jefferson barely made it into office as president between two party regulars.The French Revolution was no exception. After the genius and idealism of Mirabeau, Danton, and others who had created the Revolution, it fell into the hands of an unscrupulous and sententious bourgeois lawyer who had been lost among the back benches of the first Estates-General. Like Stalin, Robespierre rose through tireless party service and meticulous attention to detail and finally through the execution of men who had been the real heroes of the Revolution. Unlike Stalin, however, Robespierre was a brilliant orator who ultimately was destroyed on the guillotine by the very terror he had created to eliminate his rivals.In Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue, Otto J. Scott has created an ironic portrait of hypocrisy in power. This biography is a study in moral arrogance, self-proclaimed virtue, and the effectiveness of brutality in the position of political leadership; it is a reenactment of the events that Robespierre came to personify—the Reign of Terror. This political condition has since been re-enacted all too often.
Author : R. S. Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849009642
