Letters Written in France

Letters Written in France PDF Author: Helen Maria Williams
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460403657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to an England fearful of another civil war. Her twenty-six letters recounting old regime tyranny and revolutionary events provide both an apology for the Revolution and a representation of it as sublime spectacle.

A French Alphabet Book of 1814

A French Alphabet Book of 1814 PDF Author: Charles Plante
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 9780847830107
Category : Alphabet books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This charming primer on the alphabet captures the essence of everyday life among the French aristocracy in 1814, in a uniquely detailed series of watercolor drawings. The illustrations give fascinating views of the family chateau and its grounds as well as the kitchen, workshops, and stables.

Letters from France

Letters from France PDF Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875864899
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Woods brings together a unique and perceptive collection of documents that not only offer a rare glimpse into the complex mind of Benjamin Franklin the diplomat, but also provide new insights into the French-American alliance against the British.

The Republic of Letters

The Republic of Letters PDF Author: Dena Goodman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801481741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Goodman chronicles the story of the Republic of Letters from its earliest formation through major periods of change: the production of the Encyclopedia, the proliferation of a print culture that widened circles of readership beyond the control of salon governance, and the early years of the French Revolution.

Alphabet

Alphabet PDF Author: Jean Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alphabet books
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Calligraphic letters of the alphabet drawn in black ink "written with a small piece of cherry veneer secured in a wooden handle", pasted up on a board.

Writing the Revolution

Writing the Revolution PDF Author: Lindsay A. H. Parker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019993102X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
Writing the Revolution challenges the thesis that exclusion defined women's experiences of the French Revolution by exploring the life of a middle-class wife and mother of revolutionary elites, Rosalie Jullien.
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