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City of Darkness, City of Light: A Novel - Hardcover

Piercy, Marge

 
9780449912683: City of Darkness, City of Light: A Novel
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 044991268X ISBN 13: 9780449912683
Verlag: Fawcett, 1996

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In a re-creation of the roles that women played during the French Revolution, Claire escapes poverty by joining a traveling theatrical troupe, Manon becomes involved with the intellectual movement, and Pauline witnesses the torture and executions of common people who riot for bread.

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and Danton. These are the names that have come down to us as the architects of the French Revolution. Yet there is another story of that glorious, bloody movement that still lies buried: the courageous women who sparked the revolution by taking to the streets. Now, in her most splendid, thought-provoking novel yet, Marge Piercy brings to vibrant life three of the women who played prominent roles in the most tumultuous turning point in European history, and tells the intimate stories of the men whose names we know so well.
Claire Lacombe escapes the grinding poverty of Pamiers by joining a traveling theatrical troupe as an actress. Defiantly independent, strikingly beautiful, she will become a symbol to many as she tests her theory: if men can make things happen, perhaps women can too. . . . Manon Philipon, a jeweler's daughter, worships Rousseau and the life of the mind. When she marries Jean Roland, a minor provincial bureaucrat, she finds she has a talent for politics--albeit as the ghostwrite

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Verlag
Fawcett
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
044991268X
ISBN 13 
9780449912683
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
477
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