| Mirabeau and the French Revolution Contributor(s): Warwick, Charles F. (Author), Neill, John R. (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1162779454 ISBN-13: 9781162779454 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - History | Military - Weapons - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6" W x 9" (1.52 lbs) 520 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 1905. A biography of Mirabeau, French revolutionary and political leader whose life, prior to 1789, was characterized by wild excesses, which ruined his health and caused him to be repeatedly jailed-several times at the request of his father, with whom he carried on a public quarrel. In 1785 he was exiled to England. In 1786 he was sent to Prussia on a secret mission. He betrayed his government's trust by publishing his unedited reports to Paris, which contained accounts of scandal and intrigue in the Prussian Court. He was a supporter of a constitutional monarchy and tried to reconcile the reactionary court of Louis XVI with the increasingly radical forces of the Revolution. Many of Mirabeau's efforts to achieve a reconciliation between the conflicting aspirations of conservatives and radicals often involved proposals that seemed way too extreme to some interests and way too moderate to others. He died in 1791. |