Focuses on the social life and customs of people during the ten years of the French Revolution.
Université de Toulouse, 1977. Bamford, Paul W., 'French Forest Legislation and Administration, 1660–1789', Agricultural History 29 (1955), 101. Bardet, Jean-Pierre et al. (eds), Lorsque l'enfant grandit: entre dépendance et autonomie.
Selected writings on the daily life in Revolutionary France
Thomas Sheppard examines Lourmarin, a mainly Protestant village with a small textile industry. He seeks to answer a series of questions posed at the outset of the book: What was daily life like in an eighteenth-century French village?
Looking at the war and society from many angles, the book's 20 chapters cover such important topics as radicals, Tories, taxation, the French, the Hessians, prisoner-of-war conditions, fashion, leisure time activities, and war on the ...
As nurturing and tender as they are belligerent and contentious, these are not singular female heroines but the collective common women who struggled for bare subsistence by working in factories, in shops, on the streets, and on the home ...
This book was Cobb's first major work and is still generally regarded as his most important contribution to French history.It illustrates all those characteristics that have come to be seen as typical of Cobb's distinctive historical style: ...
After a night of discussions between the king, his captors, and deputies sent from the National Assembly, the royal carriage was turned around, and led back toward Paris by units of the provincial national guard.
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