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Bette W. Oliver
LeBrun’s contributions to the development of the Louvre as a national museum during the French Revolution offer an invaluable record of artistic practices. His publications and inventories of confiscated artworks…
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The memoirs of the expelled Girondin deputies-Buzot, Petion, Barbaroux, and Louvet-provide the basis for this book, which documents their lives as fugitives from June 1793 to June 1794, by which…
From the beginning of the French Revolution in July 1789 until the end of the Terror five years later, those involved sought to devise survival strategies according to their personal…
Despite numerous obstacles, Jean-Baptiste Louvet, author of the romance Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas, survived the French Revolution through a combination of luck, imagination, and determination. This book traces…
This study examines Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754-1793), the influential journalist and Girondin politician who championed the new American republic as an example for the French revolutionary government to follow. It…
Scholars, specialists, government officials, and patriots faced vandalism, war, and the terror to establish great national institutions accessible to the public - the Louvre and the Bibliotheque Nationale - living…
Scholars, specialists, government officials, and patriots faced vandalism, war, and the Terror to establish great national institutions accessible to the public - the Louvre and the Bibliotheque Nationale - living…
Provincial Patriot of the French Revolution: Francois Buzot, 1760-1794, provides a personal perspective on the dramatic events of the French Revolution between 1789 and 1794. By examining the life and…
