Letters of The Duchesse d'Elbeuf

Hostile Witness to the French Revolution

AvColin Jones,Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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The recently-discovered letters of the wealthy counter-revolutionary aristocrat, Innocente-Catherine de Rougé, dowager duchess d’Elbeuf (1707-94), offer a vivid and exciting new eye-witness perspective on the French Revolution and the Terror. Hostile witness to everything about the Revolution, from the noble revolt, the storming of the Bastille and the peasant revolution in 1788-91, through to the outbreak of war, the overthrow and trial of Louis XVI and the Terror in 1791-4, the duchess’s letters to an unknown friend offer an unparalleled real-time narrative by an aristocratic woman struggling to understand radical change. Though tempted by emigration to the Low Countries, the duchess was unusual among her contemporary fellow-aristocrats in remaining in France down to her death in 1794, based in her two homes in Picardy and at the heart of Paris. As well as providing a detailed account of all she saw and read, the correspondence also portrays the anguished mental and spiritual odyssey of a highly devout octogenarian woman, who persisted inplangently declaring her outspokenly counter-revolutionary views even as she approached her own death in conditions of great personal danger. The letters constitute a remarkable example of female life-writing at the heart of the Age of Revolutions from a unique perspective.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-09
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
Antal sidor:432
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781802078718

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Colin Jones is Professor Emeritus, Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor, University of Chicago. He is the author of many books on French history, most recently Versailles (Head of Zeus, 2018) and The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris (Oxford University Press, 2021). Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of several articles on Revolutionary justice and the Terror during the French Revolution and he also researches the eighteenth-century transatlantic via Revolutionary connections between France and Saint-Domingue/Haiti. Simon Macdonald is an Associate Lecturer in Modern European History at University College London. His research focuses on transnational and cultural history, with particular reference to the French Revolution. He is the co-editor, with Pascal Bastien, of Paris et ses peuples au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020).

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'The editors of a surviving fragment of her diary – letters to an unknown correspondent, written between 1788 and 1794 and published here in the original French – retrace her rise from already illustrious heights to the top of pre-revolutionary society.'David Todd, LRB

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Introduction: The Duchesse d’Elbeuf before 1789The Duchesse d’Elbeuf’s RevolutionThe hôtel d’Elbeuf and the Paris political worldParis and Moreuil, 1788-91Flirting with emigration, 1791-92Paris under terrorThe end of the lineThe Text: form, style and genreNote on the textLETTERS AND NOTESSECTION 1: 1788–89SummaryLetter 1. Paris, Saturday, 13 December 1788Letter 2. Paris, Thursday, 22 January 1789Letter 3. Paris, Tuesday, 10 February 1789Letter 4. Paris, Tuesday, 24 March 1789Letter 5. Paris, Thursday, 31 April 1789Letter 6. Paris, Saturday, 9 May 1789Letter 7. Paris, Friday, 22 May 1789Letter 8. Paris, Monday, 15 June 1789Letter 9. Paris, Wednesday, 24 June 1789Letter 10. Paris, Thursday, 1 July 1789Letter 11. Paris, Thursday, 16 July 1789Letter 12. Paris, Wednesday, 22 July 1789Letter 13. Moreuil, Saturday, 8 August 1789Letter 14. Moreuil, Thursday, 10 September 1789Letter 15. Moreuil, Wednesday, 14 October 1789Letter 16. Moreuil, Saturday, 17 October 1789Letter 17. Moreuil, Wednesday, 18 November 1789Letter 18. Moreuil, Tuesday, 22 December 1789SECTION 2: 1790SummaryLetter 19. Moreuil, Monday, 1 February 1790Letter 20. Paris, Saturday, 10 March 1790Letter 21. Moreuil, Thursday, 15 April 1790Letter 22. Moreuil, Friday, 28 May 1790NOTES 4–19 June 1790Letter 23. Moreuil, Friday, 21 June 1790NOTES 28 June–4 July 1790Letter 24. Moreuil, Monday, 5 July 1790NOTES 8–28 July 1790Letter 25. Moreuil, Saturday, 31 July 1790NOTES 4–28 August 1790DELETED NOTES 3–9 September 1790Letter 26. Moreuil, Monday, 30 August 1790NOTES 31 August–28 December 1790Letter 27. Moreuil, Wednesday, 29 December 1790SECTION 3: 1791SummaryNOTES 2 January–7 February 1791Letter 28. Saturday, Moreuil, 12 February 1791NOTES 15 February–19 March 1791Letter 29. Paris, Saturday, 19 March 1791NOTES 23 March–27 April 1791Letter 30. Paris, Friday, 29 April 1791NOTES 1–16 May 1791Letter 31. Paris, Monday, 16 May 1791NOTES 21 May–30 June 1791Letter 32. Paris, Thursday, 30 June 1791NOTES 3–27 July 1791Letter 33. Paris, Friday, 29 July 1791NOTES 1–25 August 1791Letter 34. Paris, Saturday, 27 August 1791NOTES 29 August–3 September 1791Letter 35. Paris, Monday, 5 September 1791NOTES 8–14 September 1791Letter 36. Tournai, Monday, 3 October 1791Letter 37. Tournai, Monday, 7 November 1791Letter 38. Tournai, Thursday, 25 December 1791SECTION 4: 1792SummaryLetter 39. Tournai, Saturday, 7 January 1792Letter 40. Tournai, Wednesday, 31 January 1792Letter 41. Tournai, Wednesday, 29 February 1792NOTES March 1792Letter 42. Paris, Thursday, 22 March 1792NOTES 8 April 1792Letter 43. Paris, Monday, 9 April 1792NOTES 11–26 April 1792Letter 44. Paris, Monday, 16 April 1792NOTES 17–28 April 1792Letter 45. Paris, Tuesday, 24 April 1792NOTES 25 April–25 May 1792Letter 46. Paris, Thursday, 25 May 1792NOTES 28–30 May 1792Letter 47. Paris, Thursday, 31 May 1792NOTES 31 May–16 June 1792Letter 48. Paris, Saturday, 16 June 1792NOTES 18 June–7 July 1792Letter 49. Paris, Monday, 9 July 1792NOTES 10–20 July 1792Letter 50. Paris, Wednesday, 18 July 1792NOTES 16–28 July 1792Letter 51. Paris, Wednesday, 25 July 1792NOTES 25 July–13 August 1792Letter 52. Paris, Tuesday, 14 August 1792NOTES 15–23 August 1792Letter 53. Paris, Friday, 24 August 1792NOTES 24 August–3 September 1792Letter 54. Paris, Tuesday, 4 September 1792NOTES 4–21 September 1792Letter 55. Paris, Saturday, 22 September 1792NOTES 25 September–13 OctoberLetter 56. Paris, Saturday, 15 October 1792NOTES 16 October–20 November 1792Letter 57. Paris, Thursday, 22 November 1792NOTES 23 November–13 December 1792Letter 58. Paris, Saturday, 15 December 1792NOTES 16–26 December 1792Section 5: 1793–94SummaryNOTES 4–21 January 1793Letter 59. Paris, Tuesday, 22 January 1793NOTES 24 January–1 March 1793Letter 60. Paris, Friday, 1 March 1793NOTES 3–29 March 1793Letter 61. Paris, Friday, 29 March 1793NOTES 1–9 April 1793Letter 62. Paris, Wednesday, 10 April 1793NOTES 12 April–13 May 1793Letter 63. Paris, Tuesday, 14 May 1793NOTES 16 May–5 June 1793Letter 64. Paris, Wednesday, 5 June 1793NOTES 10 June–6 July 1793Letter 65. Paris, Wednesday, 10 July 1793NOTES 13–31 July 1793Letter 66. Paris, Friday, 31 July 1793NOTES 1 August–20 September 1793Letter 67. Paris, Friday, 20 September 1793NOTES 24 September–20 October 1793Letter 68. Paris, Monday, 22 October 1793NOTES 31 October–5 November 1793Letter 69. Paris, Wednesday, 6 November 1793NOTES 7 November 1793–8 January 1794APPENDIX: Other d’Elbeuf letters, 1793-41.To Jules-François Paré, minister of the Interior, 11 October 17932.To Georgette de Rougé du Plessis-Bellière, 26 October 1793.3.To Paré, minister of the Interior, 11 December 1793.4.To an unknown individual, early 1794.5.To Rosalie de Rougé, 14 February 1794.List of Persons MentionedSources and BibliographyAcknowledgementsIllustrations and MapsIndex