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Author Baecque, Antoine de.

Title Glory and Terror : Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (251 pages)
Contents Glory and TerrorSEVEN DEATHS UNDER THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; Copyright; Contents; Introduction Sublime Abjection: The Ascendancy of Corpses; Mirabeau; or, The Spectacle of a Public Corpse; Voltaire; or, The Body of the Philosopher King; The Princesse de Lamballe; or, Sex Slaughtered; Louis XVI; or, The Sacred Remains; Geffroy; or, The Fear of Others; Robespierre; or, The Terrible Tableau; Madame Necker; or, The Poetry of the Corpse; Author's Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
Summary First published in 2003
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Subject Death -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 18th century
Martyrs -- France -- Biography
Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Death -- Psychological aspects
Human body -- Symbolic aspects
Martyrs
Psychological aspects
SUBJECT France -- History -- Reign of Terror, 1793-1794 -- Psychological aspects
Subject France
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136692017
1136692010