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Backstage at the Revolution (Hardcover)
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Backstage at the Revolution (Hardcover)
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On July 14, 1789, a crowd of angry French citizens en route to the
Bastille broke into the Paris Opera and helped themselves to any
sturdy weapon they could find. Yet despite its long association
with the royal court, its special privileges, and the splendor of
its performances, the Opera itself was spared, even protected, by
Revolutionary officials. Victoria Johnson's "Backstage at the
Revolution" tells the story of how this legendary opera house,
despite being a lightning rod for charges of tyranny and waste,
weathered the most dramatic political upheaval in European history.
Sifting through royal edicts, private letters, and Revolutionary
records of all kinds, Johnson uncovers the roots of the Opera's
survival in its identity as a uniquely privileged icon of French
culture--an identity established by the conditions of its founding
one hundred years earlier under Louis XIV. Johnson's rich cultural
history moves between both epochs, taking readers backstage to see
how a motley crew of singers, dancers, royal ministers, poet
entrepreneurs, shady managers, and the king of France all played a
part in the creation and preservation of one of the world's most
fabled cultural institutions.
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