Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
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- Author: Anne Louise Germaine Necker
- First Published: 1818
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1770-1815
- Setting: France, Switzerland, Germany, England
- Principal Characters: MADAME DE Staël, BARON ERIC MAGNUS Staël VON HOLSTEIN, JACQUES NECKER, LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE, LOUIS XV, LOUIS XVI, MARIE ANTOINETTE, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, MIRABEAU, ROBESPIERRE, TALLEYRAND, BENJAMIN CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, LOUIS DE NARBONNE, ALBERT JEAN MICHEL ROCCA
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Class conflict, Revolutionaries, France or French people, Nineteenth century, Revolutions, Paris, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Kings, queens, or royalty, French Revolution, Nobility, Napoleonic Wars
- Locales: France, England, Germany, Switzerland
Few people have had a better viewpoint during a period of violence than Anne Louise Germaine Necker during the French Revolution. The daughter of the financier and statesman, Jacques Necker, and the wife of the Swedish Ambassador Baron Eric Magnus Staël von Holstein, she observed her father’s efforts to save France from the financial crisis he saw coming to overturn his country. She also watched the early phases of the Revolution, the storming of the Bastille, and the cruelty practiced against French nobility in the name of liberty. Only because of her ambassadorial status did she...
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