Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9789999364072
ISBN number: 9999364071
Label: Random House (Merchandising)
Manufacturer: Random House (Merchandising)
Printing Date: 1956-06
Publishing house: Random House (Merchandising)
Age index: Baby-Preschool
Sale Popularity Level: 1632314
Studio: Random House (Merchandising)
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Illustrated with grey and white line drawings with a touch of pink (like cover) by Charles Clement
Babette Duplay was only fourteen when the handsome young stranger gave her a chestnut leaf - "the purple cockade of liberty". Two days later, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille. Anxious months passed by, with hunger, poverty, and discontent stalking the streets of Paris. It was a difficult time for growing up, with loved ones in danger and terror in the air. When the whispers of the pople swelled into a mighty shout for bread and liberty, all the Duplays found themselves enmeshed in the upheaval. With infinite skill, Joanne Williamson weaves a tender love story against the stirring background of the French Revolution.
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I read this book I don't know how many times when I was in about 5th and 6th grades. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, trying to make sense of the evolution of American politics in those tumultuous years, from my vantage point in a small Southern town. (I was, to be sure, an unusually politically aware kid, thanks to the older siblings whom I adored.) This book portraying the French Revolution gave me some sense of political revolutionaries as people. It portrayed the evolution of Robespierre from idealist to cruel despot, with understanding but without forgiveness. Danton, Desmoulins, Madame de Stael, Marat, Charlotte Corday, St. Just, the storming of the Bastille, the rise of the guillotine -- all these people and events were made real in a way no history class has ever begun to match. It's hard to convey without sounding trivial, but I refer back regularly to the images and notions that I received from this book. It is the opposite of the simplistic treatment that children's historical novels usually employ, and it sent me to other sources, to learn more about France and about history. I love it still, and look forward to reading it with my daughter in years to come.
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Wonderful book from the sixties. Babette Duplay was only fourteen when the handsome young stranger gave her a chestnut leaf - "the purple cockade of liberty". Two days later, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille. Anxious months passed by, with hunger, poverty, and discontent stalking the streets of Paris. It was a difficult time for growing up, with loved ones in danger and terror in the air. When the whispers of the pople swelled into a mighty shout for bread and liberty, all the Duplays found themselves enmeshed in the upheaval. With infinite skill, Joanne Williamson weaves a tender love story against the stirring background of the French Revolution.
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