What's the best way to read about french life just before, during and after revolution
Has Sansons lives in it and the people that got procecuted.https://archive.org/details/memoirsofsansons00sansuoft/page/vii/mode/1up
You read memoirs. The term and the formalised genre are French. They have a particularly strong tradition of memoir writing.
Before: Dangerous Liaisons
>>25252506Nta but I don't think the French were necessarily playing dramatic mind games on the level of what Laclos wrote about... 10/10 must-read book thoughever
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>>25252562Three volumes? Too long
Idk but the best way to understand life in the 18th century in general is the life of samuel johnson
>>25252395Memoirs from Beyond the Grave by François-René de Chateaubriand is excellent