Private Trials and Public Calamities: Or, the Early Life of Alexandrine Des Eìcherolles, During the Troubles of the First French Revolution
por Des Echerolles, Alexandrine, B. Ca
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London: Richard Bentley, 1853. 2 Vol. 3/4 Leather over marbled paper covered boards, and eppr. First English edition of Alexandrine des Echerolles' memoirs of the Revolution in France.
Alexandrine des Echerolles (La Ferte Hauterive, south of Moulins-Allier) was 13 y.o. when the Revolution forced her father, aunt and brothers to take refuge in Lyon. Her father had been elected colonel of the National Guards at Moulins, but when he was threatened with imprisonment he fled to Lyon then Switzerland, and left his daughter in the care of his sister. The aunt was murdered by the revolutionary court for refusing to reveal where her brother was living, and Alexandrine found herself alone, and relied on family and relations to taker her in.
Alexandrine des Echerolles (La Ferte Hauterive, south of Moulins-Allier) was 13 y.o. when the Revolution forced her father, aunt and brothers to take refuge in Lyon. Her father had been elected colonel of the National Guards at Moulins, but when he was threatened with imprisonment he fled to Lyon then Switzerland, and left his daughter in the care of his sister. The aunt was murdered by the revolutionary court for refusing to reveal where her brother was living, and Alexandrine found herself alone, and relied on family and relations to taker her in.
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- Biblio496
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- Private Trials and Public Calamities: Or, the Early Life of Alexandrine Des Eìcherolles, During the Troubles of the First French Revolution
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- Des Echerolles, Alexandrine, B. Ca
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- Usado - VG+
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- First
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- Richard Bentley
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- London
- Data de publicação
- 1853
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- French, revolution, memoir, aristocrat, castle, Antoinette, Lyon, terror, war, history, French
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