Articles with keyword "French Revolution"
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Ungoverned Passion
By Meredith Hindley
Founding Father and ladies' man Gouverneur Morris flees revolutionary Paris to discover the delights of central Europe.
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Impertinent Questions with William M. Reddy
By Meredith Hindley (edited by)
William M. Reddy has made a career of demonstrating how honor, love, shame, fear, and desire operate as historical forces.
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The Voracious Pen of Thomas Carlyle
By Meredith Hindley
A young historian pours forth The French Revolution, blood and all, inspiring a generation of Victorian writers.
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Black Mozart
By James Williford
A Pennsylvania scholar brings new interest to the composer known as the Black Mozart.
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Burying Molière
By Steve Moyer
How the French Revolution reappropriated the favored playwright of Louis XIV.
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Remains of the Day
By Amy Lifson
By Between June 14 and July 27, 1794, hundreds of nobles, shopkeepers, clergy, corset makers, vintners, and other “suspicious” citizens were executed by guillotine at Place de la Nation in Paris.