Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France by Lucy Moore

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

Lucy Moore

464 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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Perhaps the primary symbol of the French Revolution is that of Liberty, depicted as a female figure. Flesh and blood women, however, were less idealized: France's first constitutional government did not allow them to vote or hold office, and 65 pe...

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