Marie Tussaud

Madame Tussaud's Memoirs and Reminiscences of France

Forming an Abridged History of the French Revolution
Herausgeber: Herve, Francis

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Produktbeschreibung

Madame Tussaud's memoirs, first published in 1838, offer evocative eyewitness insights into the events and personalities of the French Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 745g
• ISBN-13: 9781108067065
• ISBN-10: 1108067069
• Artikelnr.: 40192018

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introductory remarks
2. Voltaire crowned
3. Marie Antoinette
4. Ambassadors of Tippoo Saib
5. Madame Tussaud quits the Princess Elizabeth
6. Destruction of the busts
7. Duke of Orleans
8. The emperor Joseph the Second
9. The king's return to Paris
10. Proceedings of the Jacobins
11. Anacharsis Cloots
12. General Rochambeau
13. Immense mob on the 20th June, 1792
14. Various schemes
15. Robespierre
16. Massacre of priests
17. Accusation of Robespierre
18. Preparations for Louis's trial
19. The abbé Edgeworth
20. Armed commotion
21. Duke of York defeated
22. Arraignment of the twenty-two Girondins
23. Goddess of Reason
24. Malesherbes' trial
25. Duke of York's humanity
26. Robespierre's likeness
27. Kotzebue
28. Renewed attacks of the factions
29. Formation of a directory
30. Reception of Buonaparte
31. Napoleon's operations.