[gorush]

‘twas the zeitgeist. Catherine the Great, the American and French Revolutions...it was when men cast off royalty for elected citizens. To say that this book caused it seems a stretch...but who knows?

[2ndDivisionVet]

French National Anthem - “La Marseillaise” (French/English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQSEq6tEVs

[Fiji Hill]

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Paris: Durand Neveu, 1782)

[MoochPooch]

I had a really guilty pleasure in reading that novel — and (tooting my horn here) in its original French. It really captured the spirit of that era. Actually, though, it had an underlying moral voice & sly comment on the decadence of that society.