Michael Sonenscher: 2 books
Sans-Culottes
An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and...
Before the Deluge
Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe...