Toward the Brink, 1785-1787 by Claude Manceron

Toward the Brink, 1785-1787

Age of the French Revolution #4

Claude Manceron

470 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In Toward the Brink, 1785-1787, Claude Manceron powerfully re-creates a France where Louis XVI plays cards at Versailles while artisans riot and deadly epidemics spread among destitute peasants. Amid rumors of lesbianism, Marie Antoinette is trapp...

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