Author: N. H. WEBSTER
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Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Author: Benedetta Craveri
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681373408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 617

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An enthralling work of history about the Libertine generation that came up during—and was eventually destroyed by—the French Revolution. The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, is the story of a group of “seven aristocrats whose youth coincided with the French monarchy’s final moment of grace—a moment when it seemed to the nation’s elite that a style of life based on privilege and the spirit of caste might acknowledge the widespread demand for change, and in doing so reconcile itself with Enlightenment ideals of justice, tolerance, and citizenship.” Here we meet seven emblematic characters, whom Craveri has singled out not only for “the romantic character of their exploits and amours—but also by the keenness with which they experienced this crisis in the civilization of the ancien régime, of which they themselves were the emblem.” Displaying the aristocratic virtues of “dignity, courage, refinement of manners, culture, [and] wit,” the Duc de Lauzun, the Vicomte de Ségur, the Duc de Brissac, the Comte de Narbonne, the Chevalier de Boufflers, the Comte de Ségur, and the Comte de Vaudreuil were at the same time “irreducible individualists” and true “sons of the Enlightenment,” all of them ambitious to play their part in bringing around the great changes that were in the air. When the French Revolution came, however, they found themselves condemned to poverty, exile, and in some cases execution. Telling the parallel lives of these seven dazzling but little-remembered historical figures, Craveri brings the past to life, powerfully dramatizing a turbulent time that was at once the last act of a now-vanished world and the first act of our own.

Author: Nesta H. Webster
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824085476
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: Pernille Røge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108483135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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A rich intellectual history of the reinvention of France's colonial empire in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Author: British Library
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Mrs. Eliza Slater
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 878

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Author: Mark Hinchman
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080325413X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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The once-famous trading center of Gorée, Sénégal, today lies in the busy harbor of the modern city of Dakar. From its beginnings as a modest outpost, Gorée became one of the intersections linking African trading routes to the European Atlantic trade. Then as now, people of many nationalities poured into the island: Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Tukulor, and Wolof. Trading parties brought with them gold, firewood, mirrors, books, and more. They built houses of various forms, using American lumber, French roof tiles, freshly cut straw, and pulverized seashells, and furnished them in a fashion as cosmopolitan as the city itself. A work of architectural history, Portrait of an Island explores the material culture and social relations of West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Multiple features of eighteenth-century Gorée—its demographic diversity; the prominence of women leaders; the phenomenon of identities in flux; and the importance of fashion and international trade—articulate its place in the construction of an early global modernity. An examination of the built and natural landscape, Portrait of an Island deciphers the material culture involved in the ever-changing relationships among male, female, rich, poor, free, and slave.