- Französische Revolution, Histoire, Geschichte, Nonfiction
Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.
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Earnest, grave, epic and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Simon Schama
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 948
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Alfred A. Knopf, Debate
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- German, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781455137671
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First sentence
“IN THE brilliant spring of 1778, Talleyrand went to pay his respects to Voltaire.”
About Simon Schama · 1945
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