Full name: Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

Author: Lucy Moore Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780060825270 0060825278

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 Staël was a wealthy, passionate Parisian intellectual—as consumed by love affairs as she was by politics—who helped write the 1791 Constitution. Théroigne de Méricourt was an unhappy courtesan who fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Exuberant, decadent Thérésia 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. Similar books: Fatal Purity by Ruth Scurr The Lost King of France by Deborah Cadbury Twelve Who Ruled by R. R. Palmer The Terror by David Andress The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert The Black Count by Tom Reiss Napoleon by Christopher Hibbert To the Scaffold by Carolly Erickson Napoleon and Josephine by Evangeline Bruce The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792-1794 by Graeme Fife The French Revolution by William Doyle The Sun King by Nancy Mitford Athenais by Lisa Hilton