Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in France and across Europe is combined with acute insights into the underlying forces that created the dynamics of the revolution, as well as the personalities responsible for day-to-day decisions during this momentous period.

French Revolution from Its Origins to 1793

History

Georges, Lefebvre

Europe

Columbia University Press

Examines Napoleon's impact on the life of Europe from his humiliation of Russia at Tilsit to the events of the Hundred Days

Napoleon: From Tilsit to Waterloo 1807-1815

Columbia Univ. Pr.

The French Revolution

Elizabeth M. Evanson

Courage to pray

Anthony Bloom

Religion & Spirituality

Darton, Longman, and Todd

With a new introduction by Andrew Roberts. 'A penetrating interpretation...No one with a serious interest in the Napoleonic period can afford to ignore it. ' - Times Literary Supplement  Whether viewed as an inspired leader or obsessed tyrant, Napoleon has divided opinion for over 200 years. Few individuals have left such a mark on history. Georges Lefebvre's classic work, published in Routledge Classics in one paperback volume in English for the first time, is a definitive portrait of the Napoleonic era.  Lefebvre’s history sweeps us from the lightning coup d’état of 18 Brumaire in 1799 to his final downfall amidst the wheatfields of Waterloo. More than a biography, it is a brilliant survey of the turbulent age Napoleon inaugurated in his attempt to redraw the map of Europe, from the Peninsular War to the invasion of Russia. The cast includes his antagonists – Pitt the Younger, Wellington, Metternich and Tsar Alexander – and his allies – the wily Minister of Police Fouché and Talleyrand, the ‘Prince of Diplomats’. Lefebvre’s account is equally clear-eyed about Napoleon’s genius and his flaws. Napoleon’s determination to emulate Caesar and Augustus condemned Europe to more than a decade of war and economic crisis, but he also built an empire, introducing educational, administrative and financial initiatives that are still in place today. Georges Lefebvre (1877-1959) One of the foremost historians of the Twentieth Century and known as the ‘historian’s historian’, he held the chair of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne . His The French Revolution is also available in Routledge Classics.

Napoleon

Biographies & Memoirs

Routledge & K.Paul

The subject of prayer is explored as an essential element of self-awareness. The discovery of prayer, faith, love and man's relationship with God gives us hope and courage to pray.

Paulist Press

In this beautiful book by Dom Georges Lefebvre, we are invited to rediscover the essential simplicity of prayer, in rediscovering the simplicity of life, of faith. "It is not necessary," he tells us, "to see clearly all that is in our heart for us to offer it simply in a gesture of confidence. To believe peacefully that we are loved: that is still true, even if we do not seem able to feel it. That which is most true in us is hidden in the deepest place of our heart. To guess its secret, we must not violate it." There is no need to carry over into our prayer the hectic quality of modern life, nor the desperate need to succeed, to prove ourselves, to be conscious of where and who we are. These meditations can help us to rest in that cradle of love which is the source of all that we are and do: "the eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms." They are a convincing exposition of what pure, living faith means. It means that God loves us, and that that is enough. In a way both deeply theological and wisely human, Dom Lefebvre brings us back to the centre, to the one thing needful. In so far as we learn to see things aright, in their true perspective, it will be difficult for us not to pray.

Simplicity: The Heart of Prayer

This major work, graphically describes the panic, paranoia, and social chaos that sparked the Revolution. One of France's great historians analyzes the causes of the mass hysteria that overcame rural France during the summer of 1789, as hungry villagers flocked into towns to look for work or to beg for charity, and as vagrants and beggars choked the rural roads, threatening reprisals against householders who refused to give them shelter or a crust of bread.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France

NY Pantheon Books

New Left Books

Taylor&Francis

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