Antoine De Baecque

Glory and Terror (eBook, PDF)

Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Glory and Terror is a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets: * the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau * the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon * the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe * the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 247
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136692017
• Artikelnr.: 39191465

Autorenporträt

Antoine de Baecque is Professor of History at the University of Saint Quentin in Yvelynes, France and author of several studies of France during the Revolution, including The Body Politic: CorporealMetaphor in Revolutionary France . He serves as editor of the Cahiers du cinemaand is co-author of the biography, Truffaut, published by Knopf (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Sublime Abjection: The Ascendancy of Corpses Mirabeau
or, The Spectacle of a Public Corpse Voltaire
or, The Body of the Philosopher King Louis XVI
or, The Sacred Remains Geffory
or, The Fear of Others Robespierre
or, The Terrible Tableau Madame Necker
or, The Poetry of the Corpse Author's Acknowledgments Notes Index