Letters from revolutionary France
letters written in France to a friend in London, between the month of November 1794, and the month of May 1795
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Author
Contributions
- Edwards, Gavin. - Contributor
- Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833. - Contributor
Publication
2001 - University of Wales Press, Cardiff, Wales
Language
English
Word Count
46,500 words, Guess
Page Count
186 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3544424M
- ISBN-100708316921
- OCLC Control Number48153211
- OCLC Control Number669694961
- Library of Congress Control Number2001536160
and 3 more
- LibraryThing4628911
- WikidataQ20592190
- Goodreads2167715
Classifications
- DDC944.04/4/092
- LCCDC185.5 .T3 2001
Description
"Letters Written in France to a Friend in London is a vivid and astute first-hand account of the French Revolution as experienced by Major Watkin Tench, a Marine officer held prisoner in the town of Quimper, Brittany in 1794 95. Tench (1758 1833) had previously been a prisoner of the French in Maryland during the War of American Independence and had taken part in the founding of the New South Wales convict colony in 1788." "Tench's letters (from Quimper and from the French ships le Marat and le Normandie in Brest harbour) give a powerful sense of a country caught up in a process of rapid and unpredictable change at a time when counter-revolutionary uprisings in rural Brittany were being fuelled by differences in religion and language." "This fully-annotated edition includes an introduction placing Tench's work in its historical, literary and cultural contexts. It will appeal not only to students and scholars of history and literature, but to all those interested in the French Revolution as well as in military and maritime history at the turn of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Topics
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Times
Genres
- Personal narratives, British
- Correspondence
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