Revolutionary France 1770 - 1880 Dialect Based on the Du Bois

Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard University

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Revolutionary France 1770 - 1880 Dialect Based on the Du BoisThis is an account of 110 years of turbulence and change. At the offset there were not one, but two revolutions: by intent the first was egalitarian, the second Bonaparte's authoritarian. The tension between the two characterized the period and shaped the Republic that in the end emerged from the ruins of the Ancien Regime. The narrative begins in the last years of Louis XVI. The author provides a graphic account of the years leading up to the