Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime by Victoria Johnson
Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime

Victoria Johnson

Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime

Victoria Johnson

304 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

dark informative medium-paced

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On July 14, 1789, a crowd of angry French citizens en route to the Bastille broke into the Paris Opera and helped themselves to any sturdy weapon they could find. Yet despite its long association with the royal court, its special privileges, and t...

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