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France France History Revolution, 1789-1799 France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Drama France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Fiction Historical fiction London (England) History 18th century Fiction marquis de Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier 1757-1834 Paris (France) History 1789-1799 Fiction Revolution (France : 1789-1799) Statesmen France BiographySummary: "An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TALChaffin, Tom
Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHABlakemore, A. K.
Summary: 1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying: they say he ate a golden fork, and that it's killing him from the inside. But that's not all--he is rumored to have done monstrous things in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Summary: They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals. On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon; that same night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find. So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 GAICarey, Edward
Summary: In 1761 a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris, where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together, they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARMcPhee, Peter
Summary: The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’s study of eighteenth-century France and Europe to create an entirely fresh account of the world’s first great modern revolution—its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944 MCPBruce, Evangeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BRUScurr, Ruth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBESPIERRE, MAXIMILIE SCUDonnelly, Jennifer.
Summary: An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION DONBerridge, Kate.
Summary: Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. This intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman had both a ringside seat and a cameo role in the French Revolution, then went on to plant the seed of our obsession with celebrity. Writer Berridge tells her complete story for the first time, drawing upon sources including Tussaud's memoirs and historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUSSAUD, MARIE BERQuinn, Kate
Summary: "Six best-selling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers - six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution. Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUISummary: The lady, Grace Elliot, was once the mistress of the Prince of Wales. She left him for Philippe, Duc d'Orleans, a cousin of Louis XVI. The film opens a year after the fall of the Bastille, and while their affair is over, Grace and the Duc have stayed close friends. But just because they're friends doesn't mean they can't (and don't) have powerful political arguments. Organized around five...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADDickens, Charles
Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICErickson, Carolly
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERISummary: The TARDIS arrives near Paris during the French Revolution, a time of great upheaval, bloodshed and terror. Soon, with the Doctor trapped inside a burning farmhouse, Ian imprisoned and Susan and Barbara on their way to the guillotine, it's clear this will be one of their most dangerous and exciting adventures yet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2013
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCTaylor, Andrew
Summary: Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a wealthy American, receives word that his estranged wife Augusta has been killed in France. She leaves behind ten-year-old Charles, who is brought to England to Charnwood Court, a house in the country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYRead, Piers Paul
Summary: After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy. Scarpia enrolls in the papal army and is soon taken up by a countess eager to have a handsome young officer at her side. She introduces Scarpia into Roman society. He is both enthralled and agitated by its mix of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC READickens, Charles
Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1981
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICDuncan, Mike
Summary: "Few in history can match the breadth and depth of the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought as one with righteous revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic. As an idealistic and courageous teenager serving in the American Revolution, he used his considerable wealth and savvy to help the Americans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0092 DUNPataki, Allison
Summary: "As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she has known and loved is gone and it's fallen on her to save her family from the guillotine. A chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte, the ambitious and charismatic young military prodigy, provides her answer. When her beloved sister Julie marries his brother Joseph, Desiree and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATDickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1984
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DickeDarnton, Robert
Summary: "When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2024