The Candle and the Guillotine

The Candle and the GuillotineAs in a number of Frances major cities, civil war erupted in Lyon in the summer of 1793, ultimately leading to a siege of the city and a wave of mass executions. Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization. Julie

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their comparative approach to Hellenic civilization in many ways reinforced the racist and anti-semitic discourses of fin-de-siècle Germany

Temple Thurston finally broke through to a popular audience with this novel of romance and wonder

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to the tumultuous era of Napoleon III

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The discussion includes analyses of classical Confucian and Daoist texts