À gorge déployée ? Rire et guillotine en Grande-Bretagne pendant la Révolution française
Following the execution of Louis xvi, England was in the throes of the fear of revolution, and it became bad form or downright dangerous to laugh at the guillotine. The loyalists imposed a strict social ban on such behaviour, considering the sardonic grin of the French Jacobins as a sign of their in...
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Language: | English |
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Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
2013-12-01
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Series: | XVII-XVIII |
Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/1718/512 |