Desan, Suzanne,  1957- <br/><br/>
Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon / 
Suzanne Desan. 
 - viii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm. 
 - Great courses. History (Modern history) .
 - Great courses (Compact disc) .
<br/><br/> Course no. 8220.  Each volume of program contains 12 lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 48 lectures.  Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-373) in course guidebook. 
<br/><br/> Introduction and the old regime monarchy ;  Privilege: old regime society --  The Enlightenment ;  France, global commerce, and colonization--  American revolution and the economic crisis ;  The political awakening of 1789 --  July 14th: storming the Bastille ;  Peasant revolt and the abolition of feudalism--  The declaration of the rights of man ;  Paris commands its king--  Political apprenticeship in democracy ;  Religion and the early revolution --  Volume 1. Disc 1.  Disc 2.  Disc 3.  Disc 4.  Disc 5.  Disc 6.  The revolution and the colonies ;  Women's rights in the early revolution--  The king's flight ;  Foreign reactions: a divided Europe--  The path to war with Europe ;  Overthrowing the monarchy --  The king's trial ;  The Republic at war--  Revolutionary culture and festivals ;  Family and marriage--  Slave revolt and the abolition of slavery ;  Counterrevolution and the Vendée --  Volume 2. Disc 7.  Disc 8.  Disc 9.  Disc 10.  Disc 11.  Disc 12.  The pressure cooker of politics ;  Revolution in crisis: summer 1793--  Terror is the order of the day ;  The revolution devours her children--  The overthrow of Robespierre ;  The Thermidorian reaction --  The Directory: an experimental republic ;  Young Napoleon--  The Italian campaign and the sister republics ;  Sister republics? France and America--  Bonaparte in Egypt ;  Bonaparte seizes power --  Volume 3. Disc 13.  Disc 14.  Disc 15.  Disc 16.  Disc 17.  Disc 18.  Building power: general and first consul ;  Napoleon becomes Emperor--  Napoleon's ambitions in the new world ;  Taking on the great powers--  Expanding the empire ;  France during the empire --  Living under the empire ;  The Russian campaign--  Napoleon's fall and the Hundred Days ;  Waterloo and beyond--  Emerging political models ;  Revolutionary legacies.  Volume 4. Disc 19.  Disc 20.  Disc 21.  Disc 22.  Disc 23.  Disc 24. 
<br/><br/>Lecturer: Professor Suzanne M. Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 
<br/><br/> A lecture series on the French Revolution. The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after Napoleon in 1814 is an astonishing period in world history. This era shook the foundations of the old world and marked a permanent shift for politics, religion, and society ; not just for France, but for all of Europe. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781598039542 1598039547 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Napoleon I,  Emperor of the French,  1769-1821. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.<br/>World politics--To 1900.<br/>France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.<br/>France--History--Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DC 148  / .D47 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>944.04