Liberty

The ideals of the French Revolution inflamed a longing for liberty and equality within courageous, freethinking women of the erawomen who played vital roles in the momentous events that reshaped their nation and the world. In Liberty, Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary Frenchwomen from vastly different social and economic backgrounds who helped stoke the fervor and idealism of those years, and who risked everything to make their mark on history.Germaine de Stal was a wealthy, passionate Parisian intellectualas consumed by love affairs as she was by politicswho helped write the 1791 Constitution. Throigne de Mricourt was an unhappy courtesan who fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Exuberant, decadent Thrsia Tallien was a ruthless manipulator instrumental in engineering Robespierre's downfall. Their stories and others provide a fascinating new perspective on one of history's most turbulent epochs.