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Surviving the French Revolution - A Bridge across Time (Hardcover)
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Surviving the French Revolution - A Bridge across Time (Hardcover)
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The unleashing of the French Revolution in 1789 resulted in the
acceleration of time coupled with an inability to predict what
might happen next. As unprecedented events outpaced the days, those
caught up in the whirlwind had little time to make judicious
decisions about which course of action to follow. The lack of
reliable information and delays in communication between Paris and
the provinces only exacerbated the situation. Consequently, some
fled into exile in Europe and the United States, while others
remained to take advantage of new opportunities provided by the
revolutionary government. Between 1789 and 1794, the government
moved from a position of hopeful cooperation to one of desperate
measures instigated during the Terror of 1793-1794. As a result,
those French citizens who had fled early in the revolution,
including many aristocrats and the king's brothers, as well as the
artist Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun, could not return until many years
later, while those who had remained, such as Vigee-LeBrun's
husband, the art dealer Jean-Baptiste Pierre LeBrun, as well as the
artist Jacques-Louis David, the writers Sebastien Chamfort and
Andre Chenier, and expelled Girondin deputies, chose survival
strategies that they hoped would be successful. For all those
concerned, timing was key to survival, and those who lived found
that they had crossed a bridge between the Ancien Regime and the
beginning of the modern world. It would not be possible to grasp
the full import of the period between 1789 and 1795 until time had
decelerated to a more reasonable level after the fall of
Robespierre in 1794. Yet few could have then imagined that almost
one hundred years would pass before a stable French republic would
be established.
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