
All about the turbulent Merovingian dynasty
Finally finished my Q1 #chunksterchallenge2025 this morning. I admit that I didn‘t love this one as much as some other chunky biographies that I‘ve read. It‘s incredibly detailed, I only wish that the maps were just as detailed…it was difficult to imagine some of the battles. I‘m glad that I picked this one up…and the spine is beautiful on my shelves! Thanks for hosting, @Amiable #bookspinbingo
This is basically a history about French chaos and Berthe Morisot with a bit of Manet. She's an icon and I'm glad I took a break from (paused) my fantasy trend to give her some of my headspace.
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Map of revolutions, mutinies and uprisings across the Americas, the Near-East and Europe at the end of the 18th century, beginning of the 19th. I wish it was better taught at school.
Great analysis of the overthrow of bourgeois society by the people and its eventual suppression by the collusion of Prussia and the French government.
This map showing the 18th-century contraband route into France used for banned books doesn't feel as incredible today as it did last year. Force to US readers. Apparently, even romance books are in P 2025's crosshairs?!
Today is the anniversary of the first abolition of slavery in France, unanimously declared on the 4th of February 1794 (16 pluviôse an II) by the Convention during the French Revolution, before being rescinded a few years later by Napoléon. I would have liked more details to be included in the tagged book, but Eric Hazan makes it clear that the abolition was imposed by Haitian slaves rather than gifted magnanimously from mainland France, so👍
#chunksterchallenge2025 check in: I‘m 315 pages in. I‘m enjoying reading this…he‘s surprisingly funny in his letters. I do wish the maps (battlefields) were labeled more clearly.
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