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| mezzo_soprano |
Info on uprisingI am looking for info on the uprising Les Mis is based on. Does anyone have a good website I could look at? I prefer English but if they are in French I could feed them through a translator I guess.Thanks!! |
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| Vanessa20 |
http://web.archive.org/web/20000120042432/www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/9046/1832.html | ||
| Orestes Fasting |
There's a book called Barricades that's entirely about the revolutionary movement in July Monarchy-era France, and in flagrant violation of copyright law I have typed up the sections that deal with the 1832 uprising and put them on my website. The author was writing mostly about the extremist factions, which the students in Les Mis probably wouldn't have belonged to, but it should still give a good general idea. That section of my website also has a few primary sources from the same era, mostly in French and untranslated, and there's an article on the subject in the French edition of wikipedia.
If you're interested, Barricades is a good read, and it's not hard to find used versions for just a couple dollars on Amazon or half.com. |
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| mezzo_soprano |
Thanks! Does anyone else know about any sites? | ||
| Orestes Fasting |
You might also try looking for sites about Charles Jeanne and the barricade at the Cloister of Saint-Merry, which was the center of the insurrection and Hugo's inspiration for the revolutionaries in LM. I know there's a Livejournal community with some interesting things about Jeanne. | ||
| The Very Angry Woman |
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255-s01/index.html | ||
| Kragey |
Do you have a college library nearby? Most state colleges allow local residence to peruse their books, and if it's as impressive as my tiny college's library is, you'll definitely find some stuff there. | ||
| lesmisloony |
I love the Mt. Holyoke site! They've got a ton of stuff relating to LM. I almost applied there just so I could take that History 225 class and contribute to that site (which is where I first found this Monty picture I leave everywhere--the one in my sig). |