Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris

by Michael J. Mulryan

French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis S bastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study--the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades--Michael Mulryan explores his unpublished writings and urban chronicles, Tableau de Paris (1781-88) and Le Nouveau Paris (1798),...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168448488X
• ISBN13: 9781684484881
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher