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History of Fashion in the French Revolution & Empire
www.costumes.org/pages/
fashiondress/FrenchRevolution.htm
The many illustrations provide an idea of how men and women dressed
and the shift towards less frivolous tastes.
France: Popular culture
www.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/ip/popcultf.htm
An essay on the role of newspapers, caricatures and the marriage of
popular culture with politics.
A Simple Matter of Speaking French
www.napoleonseries.org/articles
/society/parlez.cfm
An excellent essay on the rural patois and behaviour of French peasants
that forced the government to promote a kind of 'linguistic nationalism'.
Books
Daily Life in the French Revolution by Jean Robiquet (Phoenix,
2002) £12.99
By detailing the lives of soldiers, criminals, artisans and prostitutes,
this book brings to life the sights, smells and sounds of everyday life
during the Revolution.
The Peasantry in the French Revolution by P M Jones (Cambridge
University Press, 1988) £14.95
Chronicles the Revolution as experienced at the grass roots and puts forward
the idea that peasant participation in the Revolution ran counter to its
main capitalist thrust.
English Society in the 18th Century (Penguin, 1990) £9.99
A portrait of 18th-century English towns and country, from princes to
paupers. Included: diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos,
the arts, and work and wages.
Rebellious Hearts: British women writers and the French Revolution
by Adriana Craciun and Kari Lokke (New York Press, 2001) £14.99
Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic,
religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution and the
Napoleonic era.
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