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Richard Charles Cobb CBE FBA (20 May 1917 – 15 January 1996) was a British historian and essayist, and professor at the University of Oxford.He was the author of numerous influential works about the history of France, particularly the French Revolution.
In the Spirit of Religion: book promised and necessary to the Federal Universal Friends of Truth, Paris, Impr. Social Circle, 1792 Social Circle, 1792 History of Modern Europe: From the Invasion of Northern Peoples in the Roman Empire until the Peace of 1783 , 3 vols. Paris, Geneva, [sn], 1789–1792
Christopher Prendergast, Writing the City: Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 1992), Bernier, Olivier. Fireworks at Dusk: Paris in the Thirties (1993); social, artistic, and political life; Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson. Paris as Revolution: Writing the Nineteenth-Century City (Berkeley, 1994) Vincent Cronin (1994). Paris:City of Light ...
Social revolution, which had died down after the Revolutions of 1848, would rear its head in the form of the Paris Commune of 1871; but serious social unrest, social revolution, and political radicalization (such as the emergence of a new right-wing form of nationalism) would only come to the fore in the next era, the Age of Empire (1875–1914 ...
The events of May 1968 continue to influence French society. The period is considered a cultural, social and moral turning point in the nation's history. Alain Geismar, who was one of the student leaders at the time, later said the movement had succeeded "as a social revolution, not as a political one". [6]
The king rewards Nicolas for the success of his first investigation with the office of “commissaire” of police at the Châtelet (the monarchy’s seat of common-law justice until the Revolution). Also in this book, Nicolas meets those who will surround and support him in his life in Paris : Aimé de Noblecourt, former procurator and lover ...
Shock waves ran through the streets of Paris. One of the government's most charismatic and compelling orators had been assassinated. His opponent, President Poincaré, sent his sympathies to Jaurès's widow. Paris was on the brink of revolution: Jaurès had been advocating a general strike and had narrowly avoided sedition charges.
Mathiez saw the French Revolution as the critical first stage in a proletarian advance that would gather strength in the revolutions of 1848, the Paris Commune of 1871 and the Russian revolts of 1905 and reached its highest point during the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia which created a dictatorship in the name of the proletariat.