Tag: french-revolution
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A Very Short Introduction to the French Revolution (Audio)
The French Revolution survives in cultural memory through the literary refractions of Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, Baroness Orczy in The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Tolstoy in the Napoleonic aftermath that haunts War and Peace, as well as through the half-remembered iconography of tricolor cockades, the Phrygian bonnets of the sansculottes, and the apocryphal…