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From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court. He argues instead that the revolution was born of a rift among the elite over the speed of progress toward modernity and science, social and economic change. Schama’s approach, weaving in and out of private and public lives in the fashion of a novel, brings us closer than we have ever been to the harrowing and seductive French Revolution.
Simon Schama is a professor of art history and history at Columbia University and is the author of numerous award-winning books; his history Rough Crossings won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. He has written and presented more than thirty documentaries for the BBC, PBS, and the History Channel.
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
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- Narrado por: Michael Page
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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?
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Terrible Accent
- De john en 06-15-21
De: Timothy Tackett
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The French Revolution
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- De: William Doyle
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolors. Beginning in 1789, this period of extreme political and social unrest saw the end of the French monarchy, the death of an extraordinary number of people beneath the guillotine's blade during the Terror, and the rise of Napoleon, as well as far reaching consequences still with us today, such as the enduring ideology of human rights, and decimalization.
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A Solid Overview - Good for the Uninitiated
- De The Lee Family en 07-07-23
De: William Doyle
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The Revolutionary Temper
- Paris, 1748-1789
- De: Robert Darnton
- Narrado por: Andrew J. Andersen
- Duración: 21 h
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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 new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians themselves think they were doing—how did they understand their world? What were the motivations and aspirations that guided their actions?
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unbearable as a French speaker
- De Matthew Fuchs en 08-02-24
De: Robert Darnton
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Twelve Who Ruled
- The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
- De: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 17 h y 59 m
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The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their tumultuous struggles in Paris and their repressive missions in the provinces.
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A Warning
- De Josh Rowe en 03-20-21
De: R. R. Palmer, y otros
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The Enlightenment
- The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
- De: Ritchie Robertson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 40 h y 9 m
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This magisterial history - sure to become the definitive work on the subject - recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.
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The quickest 40 hour audio book I’ve listen to
- De Joey Caster en 04-02-21
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A Place of Greater Safety
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 33 h y 52 m
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It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden - and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter.
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Disaster
- De Frank Dudley Berry Jr. en 08-01-13
De: Hilary Mantel
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Phantom Terror
- Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789 - 1848
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 22 h y 30 m
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Phantom Terror explores this troubled, fascinating period, when politicians and cultural leaders from Edmund Burke to Mary Shelley were forced to choose sides and either support or resist the counterrevolutionary spirit embodied in the newly omnipotent central states. The turbulent political situation that coalesced during this era would lead directly to the revolutions of 1848 and to the collapse of order in World War I.
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Amazing
- De Mike Johnson en 07-14-15
De: Adam Zamoyski
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The American Civil War
- De: Gary W. Gallagher, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Gary W. Gallagher
- Duración: 24 h y 37 m
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Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles, those streams ran red with blood-and the United States was truly born.
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Excellent Series
- De Rodney en 07-09-13
De: Gary W. Gallagher, y otros
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The Face of Britain
- The Nation Through Its Portraits
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan, Simon Schama
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Face of Britain by Simon Schama, read by Simon Schama and Roy McMillian. Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a naked John Lennon five hours before his death. Simon Schama has written a tour de force about British portraits over the centuries.
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What is a portrait?
- De CartoChick en 01-14-20
De: Simon Schama
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The Blazing World
- A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
- De: Jonathan Healey
- Narrado por: Oliver Hembrough
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
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The seventeenth century was a revolutionary age for the English. It started as they suddenly found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and it ended in the shadow of an invasion by the Dutch. Under James I, England suffered terrorism and witch panics. Under his son Charles, state and society collapsed into civil war, to be followed by an army coup and regicide. For a short time—for the only time in history—England was a republic. There were bitter struggles over faith and Parliament asserted itself like never before. There were no boundaries to politics.
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Been looking for this book for a long time
- De cmurrell en 07-30-23
De: Jonathan Healey
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The French Revolution, Volume 1
- The Bastille
- De: Thomas Carlyle
- Narrado por: Robert Bethune
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution is a landmark of literary history. Conceived not as a dry recounting of facts, but as a personal, vivid, direct and dramatic encounter with the turbulent times of revolutionary France, it is in fact an extended dramatic monologue in which we meet not only the striking personalities and events of the time, but the equally striking personality and mind of Thomas Carlyle himself.
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A Great Disappointment
- De Charles en 12-28-09
De: Thomas Carlyle
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- De: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 33 h y 25 m
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The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.
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Best Single-Volume History of the 30 Years' War
- De Amazon Customer en 10-09-23
De: Peter H. Wilson
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- Shalomette Moore
- 06-11-19
A Must Listen!!
A fascinating and timely listen! Articulate and witty. No one and no thing relevant to the French Revolution is spared Simon Schama's withering perspicacity. Not to be missed!!
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- Jared Day
- 01-17-18
Great audiobook!! What's the problem?
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend this book in a heartbeat! Other reviewers say they had audio problems with this book -- I didn't hear any problems at all. Audible must have fixed whatever this was. A great long listen!
What does Frederick Davidson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
A good command of French -- thank God! Many other audible product producers (Charles River Editors, are you reading this?) who discuss the French Revolution often mispronounce many of the French names. Not Davidson. He is a total articulate pro!
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
A deep broad dive into the French Revolution!
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If you really want to get into the French Revolution, this is the book for you!!
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- Christopher Schultz
- 05-23-16
Fix the audio already!
The skipping ruins what is an otherwise excellent version of the history of the French Revolution
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- 02-12-22
Citizens for a better France.
I have always been curious about the French Revolution causes and ultimate impact. The Book by Simon Schama is an inclusive account of the reasons, steps and full accounting of this violent and brutal event.
Having visited the Chateau Region, one can imagine the void between the rich and the poor. But a description I had heard about the revolution, that it had eaten its own children, was confirmed by the narrative.
As with all history, it has poignant information, shared with the sharpness of a guillotine. Simon Schama is a masterful story teller! I recommend all of his work.
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- Alednam A Uonopk
- 07-25-24
Had the physical.... had to take a listen....
I had the physical book for the pics and enjoyed the narrator of this audiobook.... save your eyes, use your ears....
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- pibinca
- 05-06-18
wonderful book, problem performance
This is a great book, wonderfully written, lively and intelligent. My review however is a plea to Frederick Davidson. Obviously Audible loves him, so I hope this can reach him somehow. This reader would make the Sermon on the Mountain sound like a sneering, scoffing insult. "And blessed be the humble and the meek... yeah, right..." A reader should be a transparent vessel for the book, not an interpreter, and a misplaced interpreter at that. And what about the falsetto voice whenever a woman speaks? What's the matter with men who read women in falsetto? Women are people too! Please stop that, it's offensive and makes them all sound like caricatures! There is no reason on earth to single women out that way -- for the listener is perfectly capable to understand when it's the narrator who speaks and when it's the character. Since there is no significant change of tone and voice when a male character speaks, then I see no need to make a special case for women.
These mannerisms -- the voice dripping with misplaced sarcasm, and the falsetto -- badly mar this book. I know at least one person who had to return it because of that. Couldn't stand to listen to it.
And incidentally, yes, the recording still skips. I am now right in the middle of the book, and the skipping occurred mostly in the first one third. It hasn't skipped for the last three hours or so. But when it does, it's extremely disruptive and crucial information is lost.
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- Geoff Grundy
- 09-23-19
a bit arch
Reader a bit arch, better to interpret his mannerisms as camp. otherwise, argument by vinnette.
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- Paganini
- 05-08-20
Worth every minute
A superb history. One wishes for the time and resources to follow almost every character into his/her biography. Does the appalling violence on display still lurk in the bosom of France?
Davidson’s arch and detached style suits the material perfectly. It wouldn’t do to have the narrator break into fits of derisory laughter at the pomposity of so many self-serving “idealists”, nor to succumb to sobs as the unimaginable cruelties unfold.
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- Todd Uhl
- 07-03-23
Well done
While it is true that there are some technical problems with the recording, the benefit of this historical narrative is well worth the minor frustrations in said recording. There are many reasons one should choose this work for their time but one in particular is the comprehensive nature of the work. It allows us to see both the good and the bad and I believe that the author did an excellent job in maintaining a family neutral position and give oboe facts and not conclusions. This title is well worth the listen or read for any person who want to have a more comprehensive grasp of history.
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- Igor
- 03-03-20
Why is the skipping not fixed after five years?
Though I don't think it's a great book, I do believe this is the best available history of the French Revolution on Audible. Otherwise, I would have returned it because it is defective.
My question is for Audible: Why has this audiobook been allowed to remain on sale for five years when it is obviously defective? Why has it not been fixed? I thought Amazon was all about the customer? I used a credit on this and it doesn't sit well with me...
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