The Fascinating 18th Century. Revolutionaries, Adventurers, Libertines and Puritans. The Era That Changed the World Forever
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The Fascinating 18th Century. Revolutionaries, Adventurers, Libertines and Puritans. The Era That Changed the World Forever
14.99 €
An era of revolutions, wars, the riches of Versailles, and the dexterity of adventurers - all this is the eighteenth century. Historian Francis Vaines plunges us into the cycle of an era that changed the world:
- The American War of Independence shaped the future history of democracy, and the French Revolution gave the world the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen;
- Masonic lodges gained popularity throughout Europe, and multiple religious sects found refuge from persecution in the American states;
- Enlightenment philosophy questioned the unlimited power of monarchs and the powerlessness of the people.
- The marriage of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette twinned the great Bourbon and Habsburg dynasties, but their rule epitomized all the vices of absolute monarchy.
High court fashions coexisted with starving peasants, revolutionaries and philosophers tirelessly wrote denunciatory pamphlets.
Weyns opens before us a true panorama of a mad era of smugglers, lechers, and intriguers, as well as of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.
- The American War of Independence shaped the future history of democracy, and the French Revolution gave the world the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen;
- Masonic lodges gained popularity throughout Europe, and multiple religious sects found refuge from persecution in the American states;
- Enlightenment philosophy questioned the unlimited power of monarchs and the powerlessness of the people.
- The marriage of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette twinned the great Bourbon and Habsburg dynasties, but their rule epitomized all the vices of absolute monarchy.
High court fashions coexisted with starving peasants, revolutionaries and philosophers tirelessly wrote denunciatory pamphlets.
Weyns opens before us a true panorama of a mad era of smugglers, lechers, and intriguers, as well as of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.
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