Binding: Paperback
Description: The ideals of the French Revolution inflamed a longing for liberty and equality within courageous freethinking women of the era women who played vital roles in the momentous events that reshaped their nation and the world. In Liberty Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary Frenchwomen from vastly different social and economic backgrounds who helped stoke the fervor and idealism of those years and who risked everything to make their mark on history. Germaine de Sta l was a wealthy passionate Parisian intellectual as consumed by love affairs as she was by politics who helped write the 1791 Constitution. Th roigne de M ricourt was an unhappy courtesan who fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Exuberant decadent Th r sia Tallien was a ruthless manipulator instrumental in engineering Robespierre's downfall. Their stories and others provide a fascinating new perspective on one of history's most turbulent epochs.
Title: Liberty The Lives And Times Of Six Women In Revolutionary France
Author(s): Moore Lucy
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060825270
Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2008