Before the Deluge
Michael Sonenscher
Princeton University Press, 2009
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Madame de Pompadour's comment, 'Apres moi, le deluge' (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness. This book examines these fears and the responses to them.
- ISBN-13
- 9780691143262
- ISBN-10
- 0691143269
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2009
- Publication date
- 2009-08-30
- Pages
- 432
- Dimensions
- 235x156x25
- Weight
- 626