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    The French Revolution

    The French Revolution

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    by Thomas Carlyle

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      ISBN-13: 9781412181853
    • Publisher: eBooksLib
    • Publication date: 04/21/2010
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • File size: 1 MB

    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, satirist, and political thinker. He became influential for Victorians because his writing reflected Calvinist values but also a loss of faith, which paralleled the community’s changing scientific and political views.

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    CHAPTER II. REALISED IDEALS. SuOH a changed France have we; and a changed Louis. Changed, truly; and farther than thou yet seest! To the eye of History many things, in that sick-room of Louis, are now visible, which to the Courtiers there present were invisible. For indeed it is well said, 'in every object there ' is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye ' brings means of seeing.' To Newton and to Newton's Dog Diamond, what a different pair of Universes; while the painting on the optical retina of both was, most likely, the same! Let the Reader here, in this sick-room of Louis, endeavour to look with the mind too. Time was when men could (so to speak) of a given man, by nourishing and decorating him with fit appliances, to the due pitch, make themselves a King, almost as the Bees do; and what was still more to the purpose, loyally obey him when .made. The man so nourished and decorated, thenceforth named royal, does verily bear rule; and is said, and even thought, to be, for example, 'prosecuting conquests in Flanders,' when he lets himself like luggage be carried thither: and no light luggage; covering miles of road. For he has his unblushing Chateauroux, with her bandboxes and rouge-pots, at his side; so that, at every new station, a wooden gallery must be run up between their lodgings. He has not only his Maison-Bouche, and Valetaille without end, but his very Troop of Players, with their pasteboard 1744-74. coulisses, thunder-barrels, their kettles, fiddles, stage-wardrobes, portable larders (and chaffering and quarrelling enough); all mounted in wagons, tumbrils, second-hand chaises, sufficient not to conquer Flanders, but the patience of the world. Withsuch a flood of loud jingling appurtenances does he lumber along, prosecuting his conquests...

    Table of Contents

    Preface
    Introduction
      Carlyle's Conception of History
      The French Revolution: Characteristics, Style
      Dates in the Life of Carlyle
      Chief Works quoted by Carlyle
    Death of Louis XV; France in 1774
    The New Age
      a. Louis XVI
      b. The People
    The Notables
    The States-General
    The Third Estate
    To Arms!
    Fall of the Bastille
    Revolution
    The Menads
    The King at Paris
    The Army
    The Clubs
    Mirabeau
    Flight of the King
    The Constitution
    Europe
    The Jacobins
    The Marseillese
    The Swiss
    The Commune
    The September Massacres
    The Cannonade of Valmy
    Execution of Louis XVI
    Girondins and Mountain
    The Committees
    The New Calendar
    Death of Marat
    Marie-Antoinette
    The Reign of Terror
    The Feast of Reason
    The New Paris
    Danton, No Weakness
    Feast of the Être Suprême
    Robespierre
    Decline of Revolution
    The Army
    The Whiff of Grapeshot
    Finis
    Appendixes
      Chronological Table
      The Republican Calendar
      The House of Bourbon
      Index of Proper Names
      Glossary
    Maps
      Central Paris during the Revolution
      The Campaign of 1792

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    The book that established Thomas Carlyle’s reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on the subject. It combines a shrewd insight into character, a vivid realization of the picturesque, and a singular ability to bring the past to blazing life, making it a reading experience as thrilling as any novel. As John D. Rosenberg observes in his Introduction, The French Revolution is “one of the grand poems of [Carlyle’s] century, yet its poetry consists in being everywhere scrupulously rooted in historical fact.”

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