The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789 by Robert Darnton #literature Patchanida Chimkire

Patchanida Chimkire

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HarperCollinsISBN: 9780063080904Extent: 256 pages

The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789 by Robert Darnton #literature Patchanida ChimkireEvents do not come naked into the world. They come clothed in attitudes, assumptions, values, memories of the past, anticipations of the future, hopes and fears and many other emotions. To understand events, it is necessary to describe the perceptions that accompany them, for the two are inseparable. When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a