Legend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged aristocrats, were displaced and then humanely dispatched. In the ensuing years, we are told, France was heroically transformed into an idyll of Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite. In fact, as Stephen Clarke argues in his informative and eye-opening account of the French Revolution, almost all of this is completely untrue. In 1789 almost no one wanted to oust King Louis XVI, let alone guillotine him. While the Bastille was being stormed by out-of-control Parisians, The French Revolution and What Went Wrong - Stephen Clarke od authora Stephen Clarke a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Stephen Clarke |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
592 |
Rok vydání |
2018 |
Typ |
filmy |
Nakladatelství |
Century |