Author: Philip Dwyer
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030016243X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 817
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Traces Napoleon's rise to power, early mistakes, and military campaigns, while considering the emperor's darker side and the lengths to which he went to establish himself as a legitimate ruler.
Author: Ambrose Saricks
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Author: Mona Ozouf
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674298842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals; Ozouf shows us that they were much more than bizarre marginalia to the revolutionary process.
Author: Sanja Perovic
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139537032
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain Maréchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time, and the relationship between the imagination and political action.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1508
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Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Includes monthly supplements to International congress calendar.
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Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Includes monthly supplements to International congress calendar.
Author: Matthew Truesdell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019510689X
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Elected President of the Second Republic in 1848, the year of the inception of universal male suffrage, this nephew of Napoleon I overthrew that Republic in 1851 to establish himself as Emperor Napoleon III, a title he kept for almost twenty years.
Author: Michel Tournier
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ISBN: 9781848878532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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This novel follows the passage of strange, gentle Abel Tiffauges from submissive schoolboy to adult misfit - a man without a sense of belonging until he finds himself a prisoner of war, and then a teacher, and then the 'ogre' of a Nazi school at the castle of Kaltenborn.
Author: Laila Storch
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253032687
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Laila Storch is a world-renowned oboist in her own right, but her book honors Marcel Tabuteau, one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century music. Tabuteau studied the oboe from an early age at the Paris Conservatoire and was brought to the United States in 1905, by Walter Damrosch, to play with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Although this posed a problem for the national musicians' union, he was ultimately allowed to stay, and the rest, as they say, is history. Eventually moving to Philadelphia, Tabuteau played in the Philadelphia Orchestra and taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, ultimately revamping the oboe world with his performance, pedagogical, and reed-making techniques. In 1941, Storch auditioned for Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute, but was rejected because of her gender. After much persistence and several cross-country bus trips, she was eventually accepted and began a life of study with Tabuteau. Blending archival research with personal anecdotes, and including access to rare recordings of Tabuteau and Waldemar Wolsing, Storch tells a remarkable story in an engaging style.
