The Glory and the Sorrow Audiobook Libro.fm

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What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history In The Glory and the Sorrow eminent historian Timothy Tackett answers this question through a masterful recreation of the world of Adrien Colson a minor lawyer who lived in Paris at the end of the Old Regime and during the first eight years of the French Revolution

Based on over a thousand letters written by Colson this book vividly narrates everyday life for an ordinary citizen during extraordinary times as well as the life of a neighborhood on a small street in central Paris It explores the real daytoday experience of a revolution not only the thrill the joy and the enthusiasm but also the uncertainty the confusion the anxiety and the disappointments While Colson reported on major events such as the storming of the Bastille and the Kings flight to Varennes his correspondence underscores the extent to which the great majority of Parisians in no way anticipated the Revolution the incessant circulation and power of rumors of impending disasters in Paris not just in the summer of 1789 but continually throughout the Revolutionary decade and how this affected popular psychology and behavior

An evocative account of Colsons time and place The Glory and the Sorrow is a compelling microhistory of Revolutionary France