The narrative teases the reader into an analysis of the psychology of the uprising the tremendous guilt and fear that accompanied the imprisonment of the father-figure of a monarch, and the manner in which this elicited massive, violent communal reactions of displacement and projection. I don't imagine for a moment this was Hibbert's intention - yet it is where the work takes us. Remove the over-arching political, financial and cultural rationales (all intellect, in essence) from the revolutionary equation and what we're left with are men (and a very few women) struggling with the Oedipal dilemma writ large. Because the author chooses to concentrate exclusively on the character of the major players and the tenor of the events they wrought - eschewing ideals and philosophies - that madness is granted center stage. This is roughly ten years of a country's journey from negotiable concern to rampant homicidal psychosis. Remove the over-arching political, financial and cultural rationales (all intel Hibbert covers the French Revolution from the meeting of the Estates General to the emergence of Napoleon. Hibbert covers the French Revolution from the meeting of the Estates General to the emergence of Napoleon. Unless you like lectures over the buttered trout. There is the usual can't-see-the-wood-for-the-trees problem in this book as with most historiography - I would moan that the participants in this dizzy dance of death should be grasped more meaningfully than jargonny epithets like enrages, Septembrists, Dantonists, Montagnards, or Thermidoreans allow - but I can't deny that the whole thing rattles along faster than a tumbril en route to the Place de la Chop Your Head Off, and those tumbrils were fast. Hard to figure out who was left alive in Paris after 1795, fully functioning necks being a rare luxury. Frankly, it's one damned thing after another - each thing usually being more hacked about and with more bleeding orifices than the last one. There is the usual can't-see-the-wood-for-the-trees problem in this book as with most historiography - I would moan that the participants in this dizzy dance of Excellent account but my God the French Revolution was total merde and completely exhausting. Married with three children, he lives in Oxfordshire.moreĮxcellent account but my God the French Revolution was total merde and completely exhausting. Described by the New Statesman as "a pearl of biographers," he has established himself as a leading popular historian whose works reflect meticulous scholarship and has written more than twenty-five histories and biographies. Described bĬHRISTOPHER HIBBERT was born in Leicester in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. A tide of ebullient social change through wars, riots, beheadings, betrayal, conspiracy, and murder.ĬHRISTOPHER HIBBERT was born in Leicester in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. A passionate throng of Parisian artisans storming the Bastille. 108) and including the astonishing personification of Mont Blanc and its mining school established by Napoleon in 1802 ( no. In the tradition of depictions of earlier rulers, medalists captured every achievement of Napoleon I, beginning with his victories as shown in the highly idealized scene of the crossing of the St. The moment of Louis XVI’s beheading is depicted on a Dutch propaganda medal meant to elicit horror and pity ( no. 70 reverse depicting marriage) the other tragic, showing her being taken to the guillotine ( no.
Two medals shown here present events in the life of Marie-Antoinette - one happy, her marriage to Louis XVI ( no. 107) and the meeting of the Estates General at Versailles ( no. Medals produced in lead and tin alloys for popular consumption memorialized events such as the siege and storming of the Bastille in 1789 ( no. The Scher Collection includes a large number of medals of people and events from the period of the French Revolution, from the accession of Louis XVI through the reign of Napoleon I. War and revolution have always proved rich inspiration for the production of medals.
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