Dialogues Revolutionnaires

edited by M.C. Cook

Book cover: Dialogues Revolutionnaires

Extent: 92 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Exeter French Texts

Language: French

(Paperback) (Published)

(July 1994)

ISBN: 9780859893992

5.83 x 8.27 inches

Price: $30.00

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Dialogues REvolutionnaires is an edition of twelve fictional dialogues of the Revolutionary period in which the various interlocuters try to come to terms with an evolving political reality and a language which is constantly developing.


Dialogues Revolutionnaires is an edition of twelve fictional dialogues of the Revolutionary period in which the various interlocuters try to come to terms with an evolving political reality and a language which is constantly developing. The dialogues will interest cultural historians wishing to have access to rare texts in which political satire and contemporary debate are always apparent. It will further interest specialists of the French language who wish to see how fictional texts attempt to incorporate the evolution of the language during the crisis. The texts themselves are lively and comic, offering a fantastic insight into the lives of ordinary people during the Revolution.

Introduction Dialogues Revolutionnaires 1. Entretiens des politiques de la Halle 2. Le Coup de Grace de l'Aristocratie 3. La Mere fort en gueule 4. Dialogue tres-vif 5. Le Fripier national 6. Le Grand Sabat 7. M. Patience et M. Vite au But 8. Grande visite de Mlle Republique 9. Entretien d'un Feuillant et d'un Jacobin 10. Dialogue pas mal raisonnable 11. V'la c'qui s'est dit 12. Le Falot du peuple Bibliographie

  • Edited by M. C. Cook