French Revolutionary Lives

David A. Bell is Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor at Princeton University, USA.Colin Jones is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London, UK and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, USA.

• Chapter1:Introduction.- Chapter2:Race, Revolution, and Celebrity: the Case of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George.- Chapter3:Ourika and the Chevalier de Boufflers.- Chapter4:The Revolutionary Rebirth of Jean-Paul Marat.- Chapter5:Navigating the Emotional Storm of 1791: The Lamarque Family in Paris, the Landes, and Saint Lucia.- Chapter6:A Jacobin Itinerary: The Biography of a Parisian Printer.- Chapter7:A ‘Muslim Jacobin’? Ahmad Khan and the Eurocentric Pitfalls of ‘Inclusive’ History.- Chapter8:Money, Manhood, and Revolutionary Biography: The Limits of Voluntary Selfhood.- Chapter9:Time and the Duchess: Revolution and Temporality in the Letters of the Duchess d’Elbeuf, 1788-94.- Chapter10:Economic Lives in the French Revolution. A Tale of Three Cousins.- Chapter11:The Vengeance of a Province: Alexandre Rousselin and his Accusers.- Chapter12:Tocqueville, Napoleon, and the Writing of Biography in a Democratic Age.