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The French Generation of 1820
By (Author) Alan Barrie Spitzer
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
944.06
Paperback
354
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
Alan Spitzer approaches the history of the French Restoration by examining the experience of a particular age group born between 1792 and 1803: the generation of 1820. A predominantly male, middle-class, educated minority of this group was perceived as representing all that was most promising and specifically youthful in the period. Their response