"uvre de vingt ans et de plusieurs mains, signée par Guillaume- Thomas Raynal, y compris celles de Diderot et du baron d'Holbach, l'Histoire des deux Indes demeure un monument de la littérature du XVIIIe siècle, avec son mélange piquant de réalité et de fantaisie. Pourtant, malgré le statut de best-seller de ce succès à scandale, Raynal ne figure pas au premier rang des Lumières. Dans les Lectures de Raynal, éditées par Hans-Jürgen Lüseb ..."
"This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, becoming a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime. Lusebrink and Reichardt use this semiotic reading of the Bastille to reveal how histo ..."
"This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the storming and subsequent fall of the Bastille in Paris on July 14, 1789 and how it came to represent the cornerstone of the French Revolution, becoming a symbol of the repression of the Old Regime. Lusebrink and Reichardt use this semiotic reading of the Bastille to reveal how histo ..."