Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Provincial Parisians
Author: Honoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac in twenty-five volumes: Provincial Parisians
Author: Honoré de BalzacParisians in the Country
Author: Honoré de BalzacBooksellers and Printers in Provincial France 1470–1600
Author: Malcolm WalsbyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004324143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 911
Book Description
Booksellers and Printers in Provincial France presents short biographies for over 2700 booksellers, printers and bookbinders active outside Paris and Lyon in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The Prefects and Provincial France
Author: Brian ChapmanPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040041116
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Originally published in 1955, this book traces the history of the Corps from its foundation in 1800, the successive stages in the career of a Prefect, his or her legal powers and influence on the social, political and economic life of the country. As well as being an original piece of research, it provides an absorbing picture of life in provincial France and explains the fundamental strength of France despite her political contradictions.
The Revolution in Provincial France
Author: Alan I. ForrestPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198206163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book presents a provincial view of the French Revolution and assesses the experience of revolution across a broad swathe of southwestern France, in an area which increasingly looked to Bordeaux as its capital city. Here the Revolution was not simply a pale reflection of events in Paris. Local conflicts and personal rivalries are vital to our understanding of the shape of events in the region, as are contrasting traditions of religious affiliation, peasant radicalism, and obedience to the state. The book examines the Revolution within a thematic framework, and discusses such aspects as the growth of a local political culture, the incidence of rural insurrection, religious responses to the Revolution, the chequered appeal of federalism, and the uneven experience of Terror and political repression.
Amateur Musical Societies and Sports Clubs in Provincial France, 1848-1914
Author: Alan R. H. BakerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319579932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book explores leisure-related voluntary associations in France during the nineteenth century as practical expressions of the Revolutionary concept of fraternité. Using a mass of unpublished sources in provincial and national archives, it analyses the history, geography and cultural significance of amateur musical societies and sports clubs in eleven départements of France between 1848 and 1914. It demonstrates that, although these voluntary associations drew upon and extended the traditional concept of cooperation and community, and the Revolutionary concept of fraternity, they also incorporated the fundamental characteristics of competition and conflict. Although intended to produce social harmony, in practice they reflected the ideological hostilities and cultural tensions that permeated French society in the nineteenth century.
Provincial Patriot of the French Revolution
Author: Bette W. OliverPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 073919691X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This biography of François Buzot, a Girondin leader in both the Constituent Assembly (1789-91) and the National Convention (1792-93), illustrates how his early life in Evreux and his training as a lawyer influenced his ideas and actions during the French Revolution, when he championed individual rights and the rule of law in a republic. A provincial leader who distrusted the increasingly centralized government in Paris, Buzot worked tirelessly to defend departmental interests, which led his Jacobin opponents to accuse him of federalism. Buzot became an active participant in the factional disputes dividing the national assembly in 1792-93, which led to frequent attacks against him and his cohorts by the radical press and demands for their impeachment. Consequently, Buzot and twenty-nine other Girondin deputies were expelled from the assembly in June 1793 and placed under house arrest. While Buzot and some of his friends escaped and fled to Caen, those Girondins who had remained in Paris were executed that October. After their attempt to form a large departmental force to march against the government in Paris had failed, Buzot and his friends fled to St. Emilion, where they survived as fugitives, often hiding in abandoned stone quarries, until June 1794. Buzot’s memoirs, written when he was on the run in 1793-94, provide an unusual contemporary account of the difficult and dangerous period known as the Terror. In addition, letters to and from his friends, notably Madame Roland, with whom he shared a romantic relationship, offer a more personal view of Buzot than can be found in most texts. Although Buzot was honored as a local hero by the citizens of Evreux in 1789, by the summer of 1793 the authorities had declared him a traitor and ordered his home demolished, and its furnishings sold at auction. Honored again during the centennial celebration of the French Revolution, by 1989 he had almost been forgotten. This first biographical treatment in English of François Buzot, a “bourgeois gentilhomme,” provides a new dimension to the story of an important revolutionary leader.
Licensing Loyalty
Author: Jane McLeodPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271037687
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
"Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Honoré de Balzac