Compelled to Witness - Annotated by Marilyn Yalom (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison to Charlotte Robespierre, women on both sides of the revolution were bound together by a common nightmare. Join Stanford professor Marilyn Yalom, as she uncovers first-person accounts of dozens of remarkable women memoirists of all ages and backgrounds, all victims of the French Revolution.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>From Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison, to Charlotte Robespierre, the sister of the man responsible for ordering hundreds to the guillotine, women on both sides of the revolution were bound together by a common nightmare. Join Stanford professor Marilyn Yalom, as she uncovers first-person accounts of more than eighty remarkable women memoirists--of all ages and backgrounds, all victims of the French Revolution. <br /> <br /> --- <br /> <br /> "Seven heads fell to the acclamation of that mad crowd, which, fortunately for me, was too captivated by this bloody scene to notice my flight and my fear..." <br /> <br /> -Alexandrine des Écherolles, then fourteen years old, describing executions by guillotine in the public square of Lyon, France. <br /> <br /> "The murder of my father, before my very eyes, filled me with rage and despair. From this moment on....I swore to fight until death or victory." <br /> <br /> -Renée Bordereau, a peasant woman, who disguised herself as a man and fought as a counterrevolutionary solider in more than two hundred battles. <br /> <br /> ---- <br /> <br /> Compelled to Witness: Women's Memoirs of the French Revolution has garnered critical acclaim from colleagues and reviewers since its original publication as Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory. <br /> <br /> "This masterfully crafted book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the French Revolution." - Library Journal <br /> <br /> "...a thoughtful feminist analysis of the French Revolution." - Publishers Weekly</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Marilyn Yalom shows us the underside of the French Revolution as seen up close through women's eyes. It is a view that we don't often get and one that is absolutely essential to understanding the impact of that still troubling event." -LYNN HUNT Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. Author of The Family Romance of the French Revolution "History is made up of seating arrangements: hence Marilyn Yalom's view of the French Revolution from the women who rocked the cradle of the Dauphin, stood guard while Marie-Antoinette shed her body linen before ascending to the guillotine, and stuck their necks out as insurgents is both rare and riveting. Acting as a literary medium with a latter-day feminist eye, Yalom breathes life into these women memoirists and weaves their miniature epics of personal survival into the larger pageant of French history. A wonderful book." -GAIL SHEEHY Author of The Silent Passage "Marilyn Yalom is to be congratulated for having focused our attention on the value of women's French Revolutionary memoirs, for understanding women's experiences of revolutionary upheaval, and for interpreting women's central roles in communicating those experiences across generational boundary lines." -DARLINE GAY LEVY Associate Professor of History, New York University "A major contribution to women's history. Thanks to Marilyn Yalom, an American, we French now discover ancestors who have been unknown to us, each with her own role - modest or eminent - played during the maelstrom of the French Revolution." -ÉLISABETH BADINTER École Polytechnique de France Author of Unopposite Sex "Yalom uses her expertise to provide a thoughtful feminist analysis of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror that followed. . . A unique contribution to historical studies." -Publishers Weekly "This masterfully crafted book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the French Revolution. . . Scholars and students alike will benefit from this important volume." -Library Journal "A fascinating study that conveys, as few other accounts have, how differently French women, as opposed to their male counterparts, view the costs of liberty, equality and fraternity." -MARY MACKEY San Francisco Chronicle "Not only gives us a vivid and fresh picture of the French Revolution; it inspires us to rethink the old truism about history being written by the victors. History's victims write too, but their accounts sound different-less glorious and much more like the way we imagine things really happened." -FRANCINE PROSE "Yalom's book is accessible and thoughtful, and it has performed valuable service to historical memory by focusing attention on a class of material too often disdained by historians of the revolution, both male and female." -DORINDA OUTRAM American Historical Review<br>
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