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 Staël was a wealthy, passionate Parisian intellectual—as consumed by love affairs as she was by politics—who helped write the 1791 Constitution. Théroigne de Méricourt was an unhappy courtesan who fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Exuberant, decadent Thérésia 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.
Lucy Moore
Liberty [EPUB ebook]
The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
Liberty [EPUB ebook]
The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780061881947 ● Publisher HarperCollins ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5639651 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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