Glory and Terror

Glory and Terroris a vivid and often gory history of the darker side of the French Revolution. Through an examination of contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions and ceremonies it brings the often horrific events of the time to life. Honing in on seven real life cases, the author recounts and interprets: * the public autopsy performed on the corpse of Mirabeau * the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon * the public torture, murder and subsequent mutilation of the Princesse de Lamballe * the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Anyone who enjoys dazzling cultural history in the vein of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and Anthony Grafton will revel in this intelligent and original work.

Antoine de Baecque is Professor of History at the University of Saint Quentin in Yvelynes, France and author of several studies of revolutionary France. He also serves as an editor of the Cahiers du cinema and is co-author of a biography of Francois Truffaut Charlotte Mandell has translated several works of French philosophy and history, including Maurice Blanchot's Work of Fire, Faux Pas, and The Book to Come, and Antoine de Baecque's The Body Politic