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Kurben

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Reading The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbett. There is a lot i don't know about it. Of course i know of some of the most dominant names like Danton, Robespierre, Marat, Desmoulins and so on but how they entered and exited the revolution i was not very clear about (for me it is a very recent history, i mostly read about things much further back in time). It is strange story about a revolution that ate its own children, they mostly did not survive the revolution. And it has a little swedish interest too for one of Napoleons generals, Bernadotte, got unfriendly with him about 1804 and ended up becoming King of Sweden instead. His line are still sitting on the swedish throne. It has started well but it is only the beginning yet. Both the king and queen are still alive.
 

staropeace

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Reading The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbett. There is a lot i don't know about it. Of course i know of some of the most dominant names like Danton, Robespierre, Marat, Desmoulins and so on but how they entered and exited the revolution i was not very clear about (for me it is a very recent history, i mostly read about things much further back in time). It is strange story about a revolution that ate its own children, they mostly did not survive the revolution. And it has a little swedish interest too for one of Napoleons generals, Bernadotte, got unfriendly with him about 1804 and ended up becoming King of Sweden instead. His line are still sitting on the swedish throne. It has started well but it is only the beginning yet. Both the king and queen are still alive.
I am reading a fiction about the American Revolution lol
 

muskrat

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Reading The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbett. There is a lot i don't know about it. Of course i know of some of the most dominant names like Danton, Robespierre, Marat, Desmoulins and so on but how they entered and exited the revolution i was not very clear about (for me it is a very recent history, i mostly read about things much further back in time). It is strange story about a revolution that ate its own children, they mostly did not survive the revolution. And it has a little swedish interest too for one of Napoleons generals, Bernadotte, got unfriendly with him about 1804 and ended up becoming King of Sweden instead. His line are still sitting on the swedish throne. It has started well but it is only the beginning yet. Both the king and queen are still alive.

A fascinating subject indeed. Tell ya, those cats really liked their decapitation.
 

Kurben

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I am reading a fiction about the American Revolution lol
I'm thinking one of the reasons the american revolution succeeded and the french more kind of ate itself (after all it ended with an emperor instead of a king) is because the american had an enemy(the english) to unite against. In tthe french the king was to weak to have that kind of function so all the different positions that were the french revolution fought eachother instead and in due course killed eachother and woke up suddenly to find themselfes ruled by an emperor (Napoleon). Probably not what the people who argued for weeks and months about what should be written in the constitution thought the future would be.
 

staropeace

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I'm thinking one of the reasons the american revolution succeeded and the french more kind of ate itself (after all it ended with an emperor instead of a king) is because the american had an enemy(the english) to unite against. In tthe french the king was to weak to have that kind of function so all the different positions that were the french revolution fought eachother instead and in due course killed eachother and woke up suddenly to find themselfes ruled by an emperor (Napoleon). Probably not what the people who argued for weeks and months about what should be written in the constitution thought the future would be.
And they ended up being a bad as the wealthy and titled .....only more so, in some cases.
 

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Starting, The Gunslinger I was struck once again by the spare prose and the pace of it as well. I can't read it quickly, nor do I want to. It reminded me of The Wind Through The Keyhole and how great it was to be back in that world after so many years.
 

muskrat

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Falling in love again, never wanted too, what am I to do? Can't help it...

Anais Nin. Oh, I'd heard of her, knew what she did and how she did it, read some poetry, this and that, but never actually read her prose. Started some last night, totally blown away, brain damaged forever--such power and beauty, such sentences, oh dear--a rushing, rambling, run-on pro, oh god, she knows what she's doing. I was needing a new phase, and this is it--and what's this? Seven volumes of diaries? Looks like a long love affair indeed.

Henry Miller me no Henry Millers, this chick is the real deal. I'm in love all over again, and clearing out shelf space. Oh, why are all the good ones dead?
 
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