Tag: France
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Robespierre’s Religion? The Cult and the Festival of the Supreme Being in Revolutionary France
Hector Le Luel discusses how Robespierre’s political legacy has clouded perceptions of festivity in Revolutionary France.
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Junk in the Trunk? How 19th Century Women Deceived Men With a Needle and Thread
Tilly Bankes looks at 19th Century French fashion, social hierarchy, US taxation and untaxable goods.
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Fiction: Liberté, Egalité, Tranquillité
Paris, 8th Thermidor, Year II ‘Behold! The head of a counter-revolutionary who would have us bend our knees to a monarchical tyrant!’ To his eyes, Martin Colbert resembled a peacock garbed in his blue and red tailcoat and hat. The matching ribbons placed sporadically on his person added to this effect. Colbert never seemed to walk…
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