Description
The ideals of the French Revolution inflamed a longing for liberty and equality within courageous, freethinking women of the era--women who played vital roles in the momentous events that reshaped their nation and the world. In Liberty, Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary Frenchwomen from vastly different social and economic backgrounds who helped stoke the fervor and idealism of those years, and who risked everything to make their mark on history.
Germaine de Sta l was a wealthy, passionate Parisian intellectual--as consumed by love affairs as she was by politics--who helped write the 1791 Constitution. Th roigne de M ricourt was an unhappy courtesan who fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Exuberant, decadent Th r sia Tallien was a ruthless manipulator instrumental in engineering Robespierre's downfall. Their stories and others provide a fascinating new perspective on one of history's most turbulent epochs.
Author: Lucy Moore
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.39w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9780060825270
ISBN10: 0060825278
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- History | Europe | France