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Compelled to Witness: Women's Memoirs of the French Revolution

3.7/5 ( ratings)

From Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison, to Charlotte Robespierre, the sister of the man responsible for ordering hundreds to the guillotine, women on both sides of the relocation were bound together by a common nightmare. Join Stanford professor Marilyn Yalom, as she uncovers first-person accounts of more than eighty remarkable women memoirists--of all ages and backgrounds, all victims of the French Revolution.

Language: English

Pages: 242

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Astor & Lenox

Release: January 30, 2015

Compelled to Witness: Women's Memoirs of the French Revolution

3.7/5 ( ratings)

From Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison, to Charlotte Robespierre, the sister of the man responsible for ordering hundreds to the guillotine, women on both sides of the relocation were bound together by a common nightmare. Join Stanford professor Marilyn Yalom, as she uncovers first-person accounts of more than eighty remarkable women memoirists--of all ages and backgrounds, all victims of the French Revolution.

Language: English

Pages: 242

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Astor & Lenox

Release: January 30, 2015

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