The School of the French Revolution

The School of the French Revolution
Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 312
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781400870639
ISBN-13 : 1400870631
Rating : 4/5 (631 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The School of the French Revolution by :

Download or read book The School of the French Revolution written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The College of Louis-le-Grand, now the premier lycée of France, is the only school with a connected history of education from the ancien régime to modern times. It was the only school never to close during the French Revolution, and its experience offers a new perspective on the fate of educational institutions in times of revolutionary change. In this book a noted historian describes the French college of the ancien régime and tells how it withstood crises of dissolution and reconstruction, dispersion of teachers and students, academic radicalism, loss of endowments, war, inflation, and political terror, to emerge in 1808 as a key element in Napoleon's Imperial University. R. R. Palmer's introduction illuminates the original documents, which are here translated for the first time. These documents supply valuable insight not only into the school's history, but also into the origins of the modern French educational system. From them emerges a portrait of the school's remarkable director, Jean-François Champagne, who guided his institution through the calamitous years of the Revolution. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


The School of the French Revolution Related Books

The School of the French Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors:
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The College of Louis-le-Grand, now the premier lycée of France, is the only school with a connected history of education from the ancien régime to modern time
Festivals and the French Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Mona Ozouf
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of
Making Democracy in the French Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: James Livesey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Livesey argues that t
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Language: en
Pages: 1090
Authors: Hugh Chisholm
Categories: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Type: BOOK - Published: 1910 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be
The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Timothy Tackett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-23 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in