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Author Yalom, Marilyn.

Title Blood sisters : the French Revolution in women's memory / Marilyn Yalom.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1993]
©1993

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DC145 .Y35 1993    Available  ---
Description xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-297) and index.
Contents Introduction : memory and memoirs -- The year 1789, in women's words -- The fall of the royal family : witnessed by the Duchesse de Tourzel -- The king and the queen in the face of death : witnessed by Madame Royale and Rosalie Lamorlière -- The republic vindicated and violated : starring Madame Roland -- The other Robespierre -- The widow Le Bas -- Germaine de Staël's Considerations of the French Revolution -- Plights and ploys in the provinces : Madame Vallon and Alexandrine des Écherolles -- The women of the Vendée -- Exile : London, St. Petersburg and upstate New York -- Reflections, personal and political.
Subject France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Personal narratives, French.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Women.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
French prose literature -- Women authors.
French prose literature -- Women authors.
French prose literature.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Personal narratives.
ISBN 0465092632 : $25.00 ($33.50 Can.)