http://estellacat.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] estellacat.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] montagnarde1793 2009-09-04 05:16 pm (UTC)

There's no need; just click on the tag that says "p. becquaert". That should go right to it. Though it's not exactly a review, just some miscellaneous thoughts on the work. I would also recommend, from what I've read of them so far (I haven't quite finished the first book yet), her series Troubles, which begins with Les naufragés de thermidor. Off the top of my head Marianne Becker's unfinished series on Robespierre is also quite good, very meticulous. There are others, but I can't think of them at the moment (and I'm going to be late for class in another minute).

It's true that the best books are hardly ever what the public reads, due to lack of distribution and advertisement (and the resulting high costs of academic books as well), but at least they get published. Whereas decent movies don't even get produced in the first place.

I couldn't agree more. That was meant as an internal critique. Forget my standards: they've failed by their own.

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