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A Tale of Two Cities, novel by Charles Dickens, published both serially and in book form in 1859. The story is set in the late 18th century against the background of the French Revolution. Although Dickens borrowed from Thomas Carlyle’s history, The French Revolution, for his sprawling tale of London and revolutionary Paris, the novel offers more drama than accuracy. The scenes of large-scale mob violence are especially vivid, if superficial in historical understanding.]]> 2023-05-11 16:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2587441124 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2587443652 Project Gutenberg: Free Book
Les Misérables presents a vast panorama of Parisian society and its underworld, and it contains many famous episodes and passages, among them a chapter on the Battle of Waterloo and the description of Valjean’s rescue of Marius by means of a flight through the sewers of Paris.]]> 2023-05-11 16:05:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2587443652 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2587468298 Melvyn Bragg discusses the reign of terror during the French Revolution and whether it was an aberration of the revolutionary cause or its natural culmination.]]> 2023-05-11 16:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2587468298 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2587479944 Melvyn Bragg discusses the legacy of the French Revolution. What kind of a watershed did the French Revolution mark in the tide of history?]]> 2023-05-11 16:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2587479944 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2591573870 Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the 'coup d'etat' that brought Napoleon to power ten years later.

In the process he explains the drama and complexities of this epoch-making era in the compelling and accessible manner he has made his trademark.]]> 2023-05-15 16:10:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2591573870 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2591615871 2023-05-15 16:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2591615871 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2591616724 2023-05-15 16:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2591616724 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2591617527 2023-05-15 16:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2591617527 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596179368 A spellbinding, epic novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists -- Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution's ideals and brought them eventually to their own tragic ends.]]> 2023-05-18 12:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596179368 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596181647 The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history publishing.]]> 2023-05-18 12:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596181647 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596188110 2023-05-18 12:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596188110 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596188465 2023-05-18 12:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596188465 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596190154 2023-05-18 12:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596190154 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596197912 2023-05-18 12:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596197912 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596199995 2023-05-18 12:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596199995 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596489269 Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours, Doyle leads the reader to the realization that we are still living with developments and consequences of the French Revolution such as decimalization, and the whole ideology of human rights. Continuing with a brief survey of the old regime and how it collapsed, Doyle continues to ellucidate how the revolution happened: why did the revolutionaries quarrel with the king, the church and the rest of Europe, why this produced Terror, and finally how it accomplished rule by a general.]]> 2023-05-18 16:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2596489269 jfe5 https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2599923933 2023-05-22 11:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jfe5/bcyauja53modnvxr/wish/2599923933