The Permanent Guillotine
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Publisher | : PM Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2018-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1629634069 |
When the Bastille was stormed on July 14, 1789, it wasn’t a crowd of breeches-wearing professionals that attacked the prison, freed the internees, and killed its superintendent, carrying off his head on a pike. It was the working people of Paris, who didn’t wear breeches, the sans-culottes. In the course of the French Revolution the sans-culottes questioned the economic system, the nature of property, the role and even the legitimacy of religion, and for the first time placed class relations at the heart of a revolutionary upheaval. They did so in an often-inchoate fashion, but they were new players on the stage of history, and the Revolution constituted their learning curve. The Permanent Guillotine is an anthology of figures who expressed the will and wishes of this nascent revolutionary class, in all its rage, directness, and contradictoriness. Taken together, these documents provide a full portrait of the left of the left of the Revolution, of the men whose destruction by Robespierre allowed for Robespierre himself to be destroyed and for all the progressive measures they advocated and he implemented to be rolled back. The Revolution they made was ultimately stolen from them, but their attempt was a fertile one, as their ideas flourished in the actions of generations of French revolutionaries.
Author | : John Wilson Croker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Executions and executioners |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1900 |
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Author | : Robert Frederick Opie |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 1997-03-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0752496050 |
The guillotine is a most potent image of revolutionary France, the tool whereby a whole society was 'redesigned'. Tracing the development of the guillotine, this book recounts the stories of famous executions, the lives of the executioners, and the research into whether the head retained consciousness after it was separated from the body.
Author | : Daniel Arasse |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Translated from the French.
Author | : Graeme Fife |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2006-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0312352247 |
"This extraordinary, bloodthirsty period comes to life in Graeme Fife's new book. Drawing on contemporary police files, eyewitness accounts, directives from the sinister Committee for Public Safety, and heart-wrenching last letters from prisoners awaiting execution, the author recreates the psychotic atmosphere of that time."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : David Bindman |
Publisher | : British Museum Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
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Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Alister Kershaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Executions and executioners |
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Author | : Thomas Carlyle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1839 |
Genre | : France |
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