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The making of a terrorist : Alexandre Rousselin and the French Revolution / Jeff Horn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horn, Jeff (Historian), author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saint-Albin, A. R. C. de (Alexandre Rousselin de Corbeau), 1773-1847.
- Revolutionaries--France--Biography.
- Nobility--France--Biography.
- France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794--Psychological aspects.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Biography.
- France--History--1789-1815.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- This is the story of how an educated young man decided that the French Revolution was worth the use of state-sponsored violence, chose to become a terrorist to protect the republic, and spent the next five decades defending his actions.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Romantic Remembers the French Revolution
- Education for Change, 1773-92
- The Making of a Terrorist, 1792-94
- The Consequences of Terror, 1794-96
- Rehabilitation: Political, Literary, and Social (1795-1815)
- Liberalism and the Press (1816-38)
- Remembering and Forgetting the French Revolution: Memories and Memoirs
- Conclusion: Satisfactions and Regrets of a Life in Revolution
- Appendix: Alexandre Rousselin and the Historians.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-752994-1
- 0-19-752995-X
- 0-19-752993-3
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