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The Affair Of The Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, And Satanism At The Court Of Louis Xivby Anne SomersetISBN 0312330170 (0-312-33017-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Affair Of The Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, And Satanism At The Court Of Louis Xiv'Book summary:The Affair of the Poisons, as it was known, was a scandal at which 'all France trembled' and which 'horrified the whole of Europe' as it implicated a number of prominent persons at the court of the Sun King, King Louis XIV in the late 17th century. It began with the trial of Marie Madeleine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, who conspired with her lover, Godin de Sainte-Croix, an army captain, to poison her father and two brothers in order to secure the family fortune and to end interference in her adulterous relationship. The marquise fled abroad, but in 1676 was arrested at Liege. The affair greatly worked on the popular imagination, and there were rumours that she had tried out her poisons on hospital patients. She was beheaded and then burned. The Brinvilliers trial attracted attention to other mysterious deaths. Parisian society had been seized by a fad for spiritualist seances, fortune-telling, and the use of love potions. The most celebrated case was that of La Voisin, a midwife and fortune-teller whose real name was Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin and whose clientele included the marquise de Montespan, Olympe Mancini (niece of Cardinal Mazarin and mother of Prince Eugene of Savoy), and Marshal Luxembourg. No formal charges were made, and there is no evidence that they were seriously implicated, yet a permanent stain was left on their names. La Voisin was burned as a poisoner and a sorceress in 1680. A special court, the chambre ardente [burning court], was instituted to judge cases of poisoning and witchcraft, and the poison epidemic came to an end in France. The affair was sympomatic of the witchcraft trials of the period throughout Europe. This bizarre witchhunt, which embroiled the gilded denizens of Versailles with the most sordid dregs of Paris society, remains both a fascinating enigma and an utterly compelling story. [via]
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The Ancien Regimeby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0460014382 (0-460-01438-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancien Regime'Book summary:Alexis de Tocqueville was a French politician who was bitterly opposed to the seizure of power by Napoleon III in 1851 which put an end to his political career. The rest of his life was devoted to the study of French society and the ways in which it had been affrected by the revolution of 1789. Tocqueville's work showed that the revolution of 1789 was not so much a new start as a development of trends already present. It remains to this day both a brilliant investigation of its subject and a relevant comment on the problems of preserving the freedom of the individual within the modern state. [via]
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Athenais: The Life of Louis Xiv's Mistress , the Real Queen of Franceby Lisa HiltonISBN 0316778516 (0-316-77851-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Athenais: The Life of Louis Xiv's Mistress , the Real Queen of France'Book summary:As lovely and charming as she was shrewd and calculating, AthÈnaÔs de Montespan became the most powerful noblewoman of her day by brilliantly manipulating her forbidden role as mistress of King Louis XIV. With a lively narrative style that reads like fiction, Lisa Hilton reveals the woman behind the most dazzling days of the Sun King's reign.
As a lover, AthÈnaÔs risked the disgrace of adultery to conduct an affair that scandalized Europe. As a patron, she supported the leaders of the cultural renaissance, including MoliËre and Racine. As a mother, she was the ancestor of most of the royal houses of Europe. The greatest beauty of her day, she lived publicly and sensationally until bizarre accusations of witchcraft forced her from grace in the "Affair of the Poisons," a mystery that remains unsolved.
ATH`NA¦S is an informative and thrilling look at a true age of extremes and a woman who achieved the heights of power at a time when it was denied to most of her sex. [via]
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Athenais: The Real Queen of Franceby Lisa HiltonISBN 0316858781 (0-316-85878-1)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Carnival in Romansby Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 0807609919 (0-8076-0991-9)
Softcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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Catherine De Medici: Renaissance Queen of Franceby Leonie FriedaISBN 184212725X (1-84212-725-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Catherine De Medici: Renaissance Queen of France'Book summary:Catherine de Medici was half French, half Italian. Orphaned in infancy, she was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of France she was constantly humiliated by his influential mistress Diane de Poitiers. When her husband died as a result of a duelling accident Catherine became queen regent during the short reign of her eldest son. When her second son became king she was the power behind the throne. She nursed dynastic ambitions, but was continually drawn into political and religious intrigues. It had always been said that she was implicated in the notorious Saint Barthlomews Day Massacre, together with the king and her third son who succeeded to the throne in 1574, but was murdered left standing with his assassins dagger in one hand, and his own entrails in the other. Her political influence waned, but she survived long enough to ensure the succession of her son-in-law who had married her daughter Margaret. Léonie Frieda has returned to original sources and re-read the thousands of letters left by Catherine. There has not been a biography in English of Catherine for many years and she believes that the time has come to show her as one of the most influential women in c16th Europe. [via]
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- Catherine De Medici: Renaissance Queen of France: ISBN 0060744936 (0-06-074493-6)
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolutionby Simon SchamaISBN 0679726101 (0-679-72610-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution'Book summary:Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology -- a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.
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Collapse of the Third Republicby William L. ShirerISBN 0306805626 (0-306-80562-6)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collapse of the Third Republic : An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940'Book summary:On June 17, 1940 William L. Shirer stood in the streets of Paris and watched the unending flow of gray German uniforms along its boulevards. In just six lovely weeks in the spring and summer of 1940 a single battle brought down in total military defeat one of the world's oldest, greatest, and most civilized powersthe second mightiest empire on earth and the possessor of one of the finest military machines ever assembled. How did it happen? After nearly a decade of research in the massive archives left from World War II and after hundreds of conversations with the Third Republics leaders, generals, diplomats, and ordinary citizens, Shirer presents the definitive answer in his stunning re-creation of why and how France fell before Hitler's armies in 1940. His book is also a devastating examination of the confusion, corruption, and cynicism that drained the strength and toughness of a democracy which Thomas Jefferson once called "every man's second country." This book complements and completes the dramatic story of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and continues to rank as one of the most important works of history of our time.[via]More editions of Collapse of the Third Republic:
- Collapse of the Third Republic: ISBN 0671785095 (0-671-78509-5)
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Hardcover, Simon and Schuster - The Collapse of the Third Republic : An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940: ISBN 0306805626 (0-306-80562-6)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Coming of the French Revolutionby Georges Lefebvre, R. R. Palmer, Timothy TackettISBN 0691121885 (0-691-12188-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coming of the French Revolution'Book summary:An in-depth portrait of France during the year 1789, which analyzes the causes, forces and nature of the Revolution. [via]
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The Days of the French Revolutionby Christopher HibbertISBN 0688169783 (0-688-16978-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Days of the French Revolution'Book summary:"Never was any such event so inevitable yet so completely unforeseen." Alexis de Tocqueville's 19th-century assessment of the French Revolution echoes the contemporary reaction to the monumental events that took place over 200 years ago. Christopher Hibbert's superb historical narrative The Days of the French Revolution captures de Tocqueville's immediacy but tempers it with the hindsight of history. Detailing events from the meeting of the Estates General at Versailles in 1789 to the coup d'état that brought Napoleon to power 10 years later, The Days of the French Revolution captures the passion and ferocity motivating the events and the individuals that most dramatically shaped the Revolution.
Originally published in 1990, The Days of the French Revolution maintains its supremacy among the plethora of French Revolution histories. An acclaimed author of over 25 historical and biographical studies, Hibbert presents complexly related events in a logical, readable format and supplies plenty of historical background and detail without sacrificing clarity or narrative flow. He writes for the general reader unfamiliar with Revolution history, introducing them to individuals as diverse as Marie Antoinette, the young lawyer Danton, the journalist Marat, and the Girondin, sans-culotte and extremist Enragé political factions, weaving their fates together, and adeptly illustrating how they influenced the Revolution and how the Revolution, in turn, changed their lives. Maps, illustrations, a chronology of principle events, a glossary, and a list of major sources supplement Hibbert's eight chronologically ordered chapters, and his prologue, which focuses on the reign of Louis XVI, sets the scene for the events of 1789. At the same time entertaining and informative, The Days of the French Revolution allows its readers to forget that they are reading a book of history. --Bertina Loeffler Sedlack [via]
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Centuryby Barbara TuchmanISBN 0345349571 (0-345-34957-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century'Book summary:In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book, was the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, who enjoyed the opulence and elegance of the courtly tradition while ruthlessly exploiting the peasants under his thrall. Tuchman looks into such events as the Hundred Years War, the collapse of the medieval church, and the rise of various heresies, pogroms, and other events that caused medieval Europeans to wonder what they had done to deserve such horrors. [via]
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- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: ISBN 0345289307 (0-345-28930-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: ISBN 0345295420 (0-345-29542-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: ISBN 0345910907 (0-345-91090-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: ISBN 0394400267 (0-394-40026-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Canada - Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century: ISBN 0345349571 (0-345-34957-1)
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- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century: ISBN 0345289307 (0-345-28930-7)
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Centuryby Barbara Wertheim TuchmanISBN 0345283945 (0-345-28394-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century'Book summary:In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book, was the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, who enjoyed the opulence and elegance of the courtly tradition while ruthlessly exploiting the peasants under his thrall. Tuchman looks into such events as the Hundred Years War, the collapse of the medieval church, and the rise of various heresies, pogroms, and other events that caused medieval Europeans to wonder what they had done to deserve such horrors. [via]
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Dressing with Color : The Designer's Guide to over 1,000 Color Combinationsby Jeanne AllenISBN 0811800946 (0-8118-0094-6)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dressing with Color : The Designer's Guide to over 1,000 Color Combinations'Book summary:For the woman who wants to look professional, well-dressed and comfortable all week long but is often bewildered by the vast array of designs and colors available to her, this comprehensive wardrobe guide provides a wealth of practical answers to the perennial question, "what to wear?" Using small silhouetted figures, it presents page after page of fashion options, each in a variety of well-coordinated color combinations. Acclaimed clothing designer Jeanne Allen explains why certain colors work together, suggests color proportions for each outfit, and offers essential tips on accessories such as jewelry, belts, and scarves. Also included are ideas for more casual outfits that go beyond the office. Eschewing rigid dressing for success formulas, Dressing with Color will prove to any woman that her wardrobe combinations can be as flexible and interesting as she is. [via]
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Lifeby Alison WeirISBN 0345434870 (0-345-43487-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life'Book summary:Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, eleanor of aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the middle ages. Despite the fact she lived in an age in which women were regarded as little more than chattel, eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. In this beautifully written new biography, alison weir, author of five widely acclaimed chronicles of england's royal rulers, paints a vibrant portrait of this truly exceptional woman, and provides new insights into her intimate life.born in 1122 into the sophisticated and cultured court of poitiers, eleanor came of age in a world of luxury, intrigue, bloody combat, and unbridled ambition. At only fifteen, she inherited one of the great fortunes of europe--the prize duchy of aquitaine--yet her father had been shrewd enough to realize that her future security lay in a powerful marriage. Consequently the sensual duchess submitted to a union with the handsome but sexually withholding louis vii, the teenage king of france. The marriage endured for fifteen fraught years, until eleanor finally succeeded in having it annulled--only to enter an even stormier match with the aggressively virile, hot-tempered henry of anjou, who would soon ascend to the english throne as henry ii.as weir traces the fascinating intersection of public and private lives in europe's twelfth-century courts, eleanor comes to life as a complex, boldly original woman who transcended the mores of society. Eventually, after enduring henry's flagrant infidelities, she showed herself a formidable and dangerous enemy of the king's interests by plotting to overthrow him with their sons henry, richard, and geoffrey. [via]
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The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71by Alistair HorneISBN 0140052100 (0-14-005210-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The French Revolutionby CarlyleISBN 1404303952 (1-4043-0395-2)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The French Revolution'Book summary:The book that established Thomas Carlyles reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on the subject. It combines a shrewd insight into character, a vivid realization of the picturesque, and a singular ability to bring the past to blazing life, making it a reading experience as thrilling as any novel. As John D. Rosenberg observes in his Introduction, The French Revolution is one of the grand poems of [Carlyles] century, yet its poetry consists in being everywhere scrupulously rooted in historical fact.
This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, complete and unabridged, is unavailable anywhere else. [via]More editions of The French Revolution:
- The French Revolution: ISBN 1847020313 (1-84702-031-3)
Softcover, Echo Library - The French Revolution: A History: ISBN 0375760229 (0-375-76022-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The French Revolution: ISBN 0486445135 (0-486-44513-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - The French Revolution: ISBN 0460100319 (0-460-10031-9)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - The French Revolution: A History: ISBN 0192818430 (0-19-281843-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The French Revolution: A History: ISBN 0404014127 (0-404-01412-7)
Hardcover, AMS Press - The French Revolution: ISBN 0460000314 (0-460-00031-4)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - The French Revolution: ISBN 1404303952 (1-4043-0395-2)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com
- The French Revolution: ISBN 1847020313 (1-84702-031-3)
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Great Cat Massacreby Robert DarntonISBN 0465015565 (0-465-01556-5)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Cat Massacre'Book summary:In this dazzling series of essays, Robert Darnton exhumes the strange and wonderful world views of the ordinary and extraordinary people inhabiting the cities, towns, and countryside of France in what we like to call The Age of Enlightenment.[via]More editions of Great Cat Massacre:
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The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural Historyby Robert DarntonISBN 0394729277 (0-394-72927-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History'Book summary:When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the 18th century version of "Little Red Riding Hood" did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions Robert Darnton attempts to answer in this dazzling series of essays that probe the ways of thought in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." [via]
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How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815by Alistair HorneISBN 0312187246 (0-312-18724-6)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805-1815'Book summary:In How Far from Austerlitz? accomplished military historian Alistair Horne covers the pivotal decade of Napoleon's career. Starting with the victories at Ulm and Austerlitz and concluding with the defeat at Waterloo, Horne treats his subject like the hero of a Greek tragedy, full of the hubris that ultimately will cause his downfall. He shows, for instance, that once the conquering begins, it can rarely stop. One victory demands a second to protect the gains of the first, and so on. Before long, resources are spread thin and the empire topples. That's essentially what happened to Napoleon, and Horne tells the tale well. In addition, he draws interesting parallels between the French emperor and Hitler: both were more or less confined to the European continent by British naval power, both launched a doomed invasion of Russia, and both had an fatal thirst for conquest. [via]
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Jeanne D'Arcby Regine PernoudISBN 2020059754 (2-02-005975-4)
Softcover, Seuil
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jeanne D'Arc'Book summary:Cette guerre dura cent ans. Elle faillit faire de la France une terre anglaise. En 1429, alors que les Anglais sont aux portes d'Orléans, une voix venue des cieux se fait entendre, non au roi de France mais à une petite paysanne de Domrémy, Jeanne. Une mission lui incombe : sauver la France. Cette pieuse jeune fille met désormais sa vie au service de son roi et de son pays. Elle prend la tête de l'armée et sauve Orléans ; elle permet au roi d'être sacré et d'affermir ainsi son pouvoir. Trahie, livrée aux Anglais, jugée par les tribunaux ecclésiastiques pour sorcellerie, elle est brûlée vive à Rouen. Celle qui réussit à redonner du courage à tout un peuple entrait dans la légende nationale.
Dans un ouvrage didactique, enrichi de nombreuses illustrations et de biographies annexes, les auteurs nous font redécouvrir de manière très vivante l'histoire exceptionnelle de cette jeune femme devenue l'héroïne la plus populaire de France. --Gaëtane Guillo [via]
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Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnessesby Regine PernoudISBN 0812812603 (0-8128-1260-3)
Softcover, Scarborough House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses'Book summary:First published in the United States in 1966 by Stein and Day. [via]
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Joan of Arc: Her Storyby Bonnie Wheeler, Regine Pernoud, Marie-Veronique Clin, Jeremy Duquesnay AdamsISBN 0312214421 (0-312-21442-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joan of Arc: Her Story'Book summary:The peasant girl who led an army against the English and placed Charles VII on the French throne has inspired countless books since her death at age 19. While others have claimed Joan the Maid (as she called herself) for every cause from feminism to working-class radicalism, this meticulous volume by two French scholars sticks close to the known facts. The authors make extensive use of contemporary documents that bring to life the turbulent political scene in which Joan operated as well as her forceful personality. Joan followed the directives of voices she believed were sent to her by God; her deep piety, self-assurance, decisiveness, and shrewd intelligence radiate from her letters and from her responses to hostile questioning at the rigged trial that resulted in her being burned alive as a heretic in 1431. General readers may be intimidated at first by a detailed narrative studded with lengthy quotations, but those who persevere will discover a story all the more moving because it is not manipulated to make a modern-day point. This English translation updates the 1986 French volume's bibliography, supplements the biographies in part 2 with sketches of historical figures less familiar outside of France, and generally makes the book more accessible for English-language readers. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Joan of Arc: Her Storyby Regine Pernoud, Marie-Veronique ClinISBN 0312227302 (0-312-22730-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joan of Arc: Her Story'Book summary:The peasant girl who led an army against the English and placed Charles VII on the French throne has inspired countless books since her death at age 19. While others have claimed Joan the Maid (as she called herself) for every cause from feminism to working-class radicalism, this meticulous volume by two French scholars sticks close to the known facts. The authors make extensive use of contemporary documents that bring to life the turbulent political scene in which Joan operated as well as her forceful personality. Joan followed the directives of voices she believed were sent to her by God; her deep piety, self-assurance, decisiveness, and shrewd intelligence radiate from her letters and from her responses to hostile questioning at the rigged trial that resulted in her being burned alive as a heretic in 1431. General readers may be intimidated at first by a detailed narrative studded with lengthy quotations, but those who persevere will discover a story all the more moving because it is not manipulated to make a modern-day point. This English translation updates the 1986 French volume's bibliography, supplements the biographies in part 2 with sketches of historical figures less familiar outside of France, and generally makes the book more accessible for English-language readers. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 1853260509 (1-85326-050-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
It has been said that Victor Hugo has a street named after him in virtually every town in France. A major reason for the singular celebrity of this most popular and versatile of the great French writers is Les Misérables (1862). In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean⬠a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert⬠Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Les Misérables is at once a tense thriller that contains one of the most compelling chase scenes in all literature, an epic portrayal of the nineteenth-century French citizenry, and a vital drama⬠highly particularized and poetic in its rendition but universal in its implications⬠of the redemption of one human being. [via]More editions of Les Miserables:
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Softcover, Arte Y Literatura - Les Miserables: ISBN 9875505684 (987-550-568-4)
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Marie Antoinette: The Journeyby Antonia FraserISBN 0385489498 (0-385-48949-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marie Antoinette: The Journey'Book summary:In the past, Antonia Fraser's bestselling histories and biographies have focused on people and events in her native England, from Mary Queen of Scots to Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot. Now she crosses the Channel to limn the life of France's unhappiest queen, bringing along her gift for fluent storytelling, vivid characterization, and evocative historical background. Marie Antoinette (1755-93) emerges in Fraser's sympathetic portrait as a goodhearted girl woefully undereducated and poorly prepared for the dynastic political intrigues into which she was thrust at age 14, when her mother, Empress Maria Theresa, married her off to the future Louis XVI to further Austria's interests in France. Far from being the licentious monster later depicted by the radicals who sent her to the guillotine at the height of the French Revolution, young Marie Antoinette was quite prudish, as well as thoroughly humiliated by her husband's widely known failure to have complete intercourse with her for seven long years (the gory details were reported to any number of concerned royal parties, including her mother and brother). She compensated by spending lavishly on clothes and palaces, but Fraser points out that this hardly made her unique among 18th-century royalty, and in any case the causes of the Revolution went far beyond one woman's frivolities. The moving final chapters show Marie Antoinette gaining in dignity and courage as the Revolution stripped her of everything, subjected her to horrific brutalities (a mob paraded the head of her closest female friend on a pike below her window), and eventually took her life. Fraser makes no attempt to hide the queen's shortcomings, in particular her poor political skills, but focuses on her personal warmth and noble bearing during her final ordeal. It's another fine piece of popular historical biography to add to Fraser's already impressive bibliography. --Wendy Smith [via]
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- Marie Antoinette: The Journey: ISBN 0307277747 (0-307-27774-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books - Marie Antoinette: The Journey: ISBN 0297819089 (0-297-81908-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson - Marie Antoinette : The Journey: ISBN 038548948X (0-385-48948-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Marie Antoinette: The Journey: ISBN 0385489498 (0-385-48949-8)
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Montaillouby LadurieISBN 0859674037 (0-85967-403-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montaillou'Book summary:This title presents an enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of village characters. [via]
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Errorby Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 0394729641 (0-394-72964-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error'Book summary:"Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie has had a success which few historians experience and which is usually reserved for the winner of the Prix Goncourt...Montaillou, which is the reconstruction of the social life of a medieval village, has been acclaimed by the experts as a masterpiece of ethnographic history and by the public as a sensational revelation of the thoughts, feelings, and activities of the ordinary people of the past."Times Literary Supplement.
With a new introduction by author Le Roy Ladurie, this special edition offers a fascinating history of a fourteenth-century village, Montaillou, in the mountainous region of southern France, almost destroyed by internal feuds and religious heterodoxy. Ladurie's portrait is based on a detailed register of Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers and future Pope Benedict XII, who conducted rigorous inquisition into heresy within his diocese. Fournier was a consummate inquisitor, an acute psychologist who was able to elicit from the accused the innermost secrets of their thoughts and actions. He was pitiless in the pursuit of error, and meticulous in recording that pursuit.
LeRoy Ladurie analyzes the behavior, demography, social mentality, and cosmology of the community of peasants and shepherds, and vividly evokes the daily life of the village and mountain pastures. His portrait of Montaillou is dominated by the personal histories of two men: the curé Pierre Clergue, a brutal and powerful man who placed his enemies in the hands of the inquisitor; and the shepherd Pierre Maury, a friend of the Albigensian perfecti and a fatalist who returned from Spain to disappear in the inquisitor's prison in his own country. Montaillou, which has received even more praise than LeRoy Ladurie's earlier work, provides a portrait of a fascinating place with a dark, intriguing history. [via]More editions of Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error:
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Montaillou, Village Occitan De 1294 a 1324by Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieISBN 2070323285 (2-07-032328-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Montaillou, Village Occitan De 1294 a 1324'Book summary:Sorte de Maigret obsessif et compulsif, Jacques Fournier, évêque de Pamiers et bientôt pape sous le nom de Benoît XII, officie à la tête d'un tribunal poursuivant les hérétiques cathares de son diocèse. À Montaillou, village d'Ariège, vingt-cinq accusés sont interrogés : le tout est consigné par le scribe consciencieux dans les folios du registre d'Inquisition.
Voilà la matière première exceptionnelle qui a nourri Montaillou, village occitan, une monographie dans laquelle Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie raconte le quotidien d'un village au début du XIVe siècle : la vie banale des montagnards comme le gentil pâtre Pierre Maury, une sociabilité villageoise prise aux jeux de l'amour et de l'adultère autour du curé, infatigable coureur de jupons Pierre Clergue, une culture et des croyances populaires profondément ancrées et parfois déviantes.
Avec cet ouvrage majeur, Le Roy Ladurie ramène le lecteur près de sept siècles en arrière, à la rencontre d'un village, de ses habitants et de ses secrets. --Loïs Klein [via]
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Napoleon Bonaparteby Alan SchomISBN 0060929588 (0-06-092958-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon Bonaparte'Book summary:You won't come away from this energetic biography thinking much of the French emperor either as a man or as a general. Historian Alan Schom depicts Napoleon (1769-1821) as a cold-hearted manipulator: Schom's blistering accounts of the 1798-99 Egyptian campaign and the disastrous 1812 retreat from Russia show the French army decimated due to its leader's failure to inform himself about the lands he was invading or to properly plan for provisioning his troops. The fun of this book comes from vigorous prose that vividly evokes Bonaparte's titanic personality and the colorful band of schemers surrounding him. [via]
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Napoleon Bonaparte: A Lifeby Alan SchomISBN 0060172142 (0-06-017214-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon Bonaparte: A Life'Book summary:Filling a remarkable gap, Alan Schom, an acclaimed historian, scholar, and author, offers the most complete picture ever of Napoleon Bonaparte, "the scourge of Europe" and France's greatest hero. Based on more than ten years of exhaustive research, Schom illuminates Napoleon's important economic and social reforms, his reorganization of the French government, and his tempestuous personal life and its effect on his political decisions.Remarkably ambitious and compulsively readable, Napoleon Bonaparte covers every aspect of l'Empereur's life and career, from his childhood on Corsica to his dramatic rise to the throne of France, his campaigns of conquest to his final crushing defeat at Waterloo and death in exile on St. Helena. A lively and accessible text, Schom's book is generously illustrated with halftones and maps and features startling new insights about Napoleon's key aides, ministers, and generals. Schom portrays Napoleon with candor, exalting his ambition and undeniable genius, but also addressing his dark side -- his ego, his failures and frailties, and the misery caused by his years of warfare across Europe. Powerful, dramatic, colorful, and impossible to put down, Napoleon Bonaparte is a biography as complex, challenging, and fascinating as the legend himself. [via]
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Old Regime and the French Revolutionby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0385092601 (0-385-09260-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Regime and the French Revolution'Book summary:The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville. [via]
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The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleonby Francois Furet, Francoise Melonio, Alexis De Tocqueville, Alan S. KahanISBN 0226805336 (0-226-80533-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleon'Book summary:One is sorely tempted to allow the marvelously lucid prose in Alan S. Kahan's new translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's study of the French Revolution speak for itself: "In 1789 the French made the greatest effort ever undertaken by any people to disassociate themselves from their past, and to put an abyss between what they had been and what they wished to become." But as Tocqueville found out when--with the hindsight of half a century--he examined the historical records, the revolution was really not so radical a turn of events. "True, it took the world by surprise, and yet it was the result of a very long process, the sudden and violent climax of a task to which ten generations had contributed." Thus the first volume of The Old Regime and the Revolution concerns itself with the state of affairs before 1798, getting beyond the "confused and often mistaken notions" of his contemporaries "about the manner in which business was conducted, the real practices of institutions ... the real basis of ideas and mores." Although many historians have taken on the French Revolution in the years since Tocqueville's analysis was first published, few have addressed the subject with as effective a combination of insight and clarity. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Old Regime and the Revolution : The Complete Textby Alexis de Tocqueville, Alan S. Kahan, Francois Furet, Francoise MelonioISBN 0226805298 (0-226-80529-8)
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The Oxford History of the French Revolutionby William DoyleISBN 019925298X (0-19-925298-X)
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Paris in the Terrorby Loomis Stanley StaffISBN 0931933188 (0-931933-18-8)
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Paris in the Terror: June, Seventeen Ninety-Three to July, Seventeen Ninety-Fourby Stanley LoomisISBN 0880294019 (0-88029-401-9)
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Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund BurkeISBN 1420924974 (1-4209-2497-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'Book summary:This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that follow the mismanagement of change. Written for a generation presented with challenges of terrible proportions--the Industrial, American, and French Revolutions, to name the most obvious--Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France displays an acute awareness of how high political stakes can be, as well as a keen ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. [via]
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The Return of Martin Guerreby Natalie DavisISBN 0674766911 (0-674-76691-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Return of Martin Guerre'Book summary:The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the Continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean village where the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago.
Now a noted historian, who served as consultant for a new French film on Martin Guerre, has searched archives and lawbooks to add new dimensions to a tale already abundant in mysteries: we are led to ponder how a common man could become an impostor in the sixteenth century, why Bertrande de Rols, an honorable peasant woman, would accept such a man as her husband, and why lawyers, poets, and men of letters like Montaigne became so fascinated with the episode.
Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. Here we see men and women trying to fashion their identities within a world of traditional ideas about property and family and of changing ideas about religion. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the ancien régime, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines.
Deftly written to please both the general public and specialists, The Return of Martin Guerre will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is also a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.
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Select Works of Edmund Burke: A New Imprint of the Payne Edition Thoughts on the Present Discontents ; The Two Speeches on Americaby Edmund Burke, Francis Canavan, Edward John PayneISBN 086597165X (0-86597-165-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Select Works of Edmund Burke: A New Imprint of the Payne Edition Thoughts on the Present Discontents ; The Two Speeches on America'Book summary:Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed three-volume Payne edition of Select Works is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne's notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of the twentieth century, has added forewords.[via]
Volume 2 consists of Burke's most renowned work, Reflections on the Revolution in France. In it, he excoriates French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France's venerable institutions and way of life. He attempts not only to explain the events of the new revolution to his readers but also to persuade them that the revolution menaces the civilization of Europe in general and that of Britain in particular. In addition, he articulates a coherent political countertheory that organizes his own beliefs about God, humanity, and society.
This is Burke's most famous work, for over two centuries read, discussed, and pondered by thousands of students and general readers as well as by professional scholars.Francis Canavan (1917-2009) was Professor of Political Science at Fordham University from 1966 until his retirement in 1988.
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Seven Ages of Parisby Alistair HorneISBN 1400034469 (1-4000-3446-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Ages of Paris'Book summary:When Paris was a small island in the middle of the Seine, its gentle climate, natural vineyards and overhanging fig trees made it the favorite retreat of Roman emperors and de facto capital of western Europe. Over two millennia the muddy Lutetia, as the Romans called Paris, pushed its borders far beyond the Right and Left Banks and continued to stretch into the imagination and affection of visitors and locals. Now the spirit of Paris is captured by the celebrated historian Alistair Horne, who has devoted twenty-five years to a labor of love.
Seven Ages of Paris begins with the reign of the forceful Philippe Auguste, who greatly expanded the Capetian kingdom before devoting himself to fortifying the city and to the construction of the Louvre. Paris shed blood in the Hundred Years War and in the religious wars between Catholics and Huguenots and prospered under Henri IVs reconciliation. His grandson, Louis XIV, built the famed palace at Versailles and patronized the playwrights Molière and Racine. With the ancien régime swept away by the Revolution, Napoleon ushered in the Imperial age, and, subsequently, the Second Empire. Partly to dampen Pariss revolutionary zeal, Baron Haussmann modernized the city: avenues were widened, squares expanded and the medieval market at Les Halles razed.
Horne portrays the Prussians bivouacking on the Champs-Elysées in 1871. Paris bounced back after the war: the 1900 World Exposition showed off an electrified Champs-Elysées and the Métro station entrances in the Art Nouveau style. Most visibly, the Eiffel Tower went up in 1889 to mark the hundredth anniversary of the Revolution.
The hubris of the Belle Epoque led straight into the Great War. The Armistice and the Paris Peace Conference sealed a phoney peace, and when war resumed the city suffered four terrible years of occupation and was visited by Hitler himself. Liberation brought the last of Hornes seven ages, the Fifth Republic, headed by de Gaulle.
Seven Ages of Paris also recalls the women who defined Parisian lifefrom Héloïse down to Josephine Baker. With an elegiac description of the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Horne brings to an end a brilliantly written history of the worlds most captivating city. [via] -
The Sun Kingby Nancy MitfordISBN 0140239677 (0-14-023967-7)
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolutionby R. R. Palmer, Isser WolochISBN 0691121877 (0-691-12187-7)
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Two Classics of the French Revolution: Reflections on the Revolution in France/the Rights of Manby Edmund Burke, Thomas PaineISBN 0385265778 (0-385-26577-8)
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Louis XIV Et Vingt Millions De Francaisby Pierre GoubertISBN 2253016659 (2-253-01665-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Louis XIV Et Vingt Millions De Francais'Book summary:Peu de livres, en ce XXe siècle, ont, autant que celui-ci, paru en 1966, marqué non seulement la corporation des historiens mais aussi le public. Eblouissant par la nouveauté du propos comme par le style, il fut en son temps salué _ ou dénoncé _ pour sa force de suggestion et son caractère corrosif, voire iconoclaste. Pour la première fois ou presque, il ne s'agissait plus de statufier (ou encore de dénigrer) le Grand Roi, mais de faire le portrait d'une société dans son épaisseur et sa complexité, et de saisir les ressorts du dialogue (souvent difficile) qu'elle entretenait avec son souverain.
Ce livre a ouvert à la recherche de multiples chantiers, souligné des lacunes, indiqué des pistes. Vingt-cinq ans après, les travaux _ souvent d'une exceptionnelle qualité _ qu'il a suggérés ont très largement confirmé et établi ce qui avait pu apparaître aux censeurs de 1966 comme une série d'intuitions hardies et d'assertions arbitraires. En des pages nouvelles, Pierre Goubert en dresse ici un bilan qui précise, complète, enrichit ce " grand classique " qu'est devenu et demeure Louis XIV et vingt millions de Français.
Professeur émérite à l'université de Paris-I, Pierre Goubert est le meilleur spécialiste actuel de l'Ancien Régime. Il est l'auteur, chez Fayard, de très grand succès: Initiation à l'histoire de la France (1984) et Mazarin (1990). [via]More editions of Louis XIV Et Vingt Millions De Francais:
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Les Miserablesby Victor HugoISBN 2070102645 (2-07-010264-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Les Miserables'Book summary:1779pages. in8. Relié. C'est un tel classique qu'on a toujours l'impression de l'avoir déjà lu. ou vu : avec Michel Bouquet dans le rôle de Javert, ou bien Depardieu. Relire donc Les Misérables, publié par Victor Hugo en 1862, offre le plaisir de la reconnaissance et du recommencement. Toujours on sera emporté par la tension romanesque du livre, ses figures inoubliables, ses langues multiples - n'oublions pas que Hugo est le premier à introduire l'argot et la langue populaire dans le français écrit -, ses histoires et son temps. De la récidive malheureuse de Jean Valjean, frais libéré du bagne, à sa progressive rédemption, de l'enfance désastreuse de Cosette à son idylle avec Marius, de la figure sacrificielle de Fantine aux personnages sinistres de Thénardier et de Javert, le roman propose une belle leçon d'humanité vivante. "Je viens détruire la fatalité humaine, écrit Hugo, je condamne l'esclavage, je chasse la misère, j'enseigne l'ignorance, je traite la maladie, j'éclaire la nuit, je hais la haine. Voilà ce que je suis et voilà pourquoi j'ai fait Les Misérables. " -Céline Darner [via]
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