Description
The French Revolution begins on April 28, 1789, the day the owner of a large wallpaper factory announces wage cuts to the staff. The workers rebel, set fire to the facilities, loot them. France is in crisis; people are suffering. Until that endless stifling night of July 13, 1789 comes, a night that everyone spent awake, full of anxiety. On the morning of July 14, with the fall of the Bastille, the Revolution is now underway. Eric Villarreal conveys to us the atmosphere of that day, breathing life into this great uprising which, over time, its message has faded into a festive fossil. Starting with the anonymous crowd, July 14 focuses on the collective narrative of the people who starred in these events, but were forgotten by official history; miniature lifetimes, which together make up a grand mural. The storming of the Bastille is one of the most iconic events of all time. But they told us her story as written by the illustrious, from the perspective of those who were not present that day. Eric Villiard's book, on the contrary, tells the story of the invisible ones who actually broke the Bastille. It is a book thanks to which the anniversary of the French Revolution, the day of France's national holiday, seems to regain its impetuous and unruly grandeur. A book with passionate writing, which makes evident what we usually forget: freedom also requires the equality of all before History.
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