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Romanticism originated in the second half of the 18th century at the same time as the French Revolution. [1] Romanticism continued to grow in reaction to the effects of the social transformation caused by the Revolution. There are many signs of these effects of the French Revolution in various pieces of Romantic literature.
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met.
A romantic adventure, Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. [1] In the course of his adventures, he becomes an actor portraying Scaramouche (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte ).
Paul et Virginie (French pronunciation: [pɔl e viʁʒini]; sometimes known in English as Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France.
Louis XV Louis XVI. The 18th century saw the gradual weakening of the absolute monarchy constructed by Louis XIV.Its power slipped away during the Regency of Philippe d'Orléans, (1715–1723) and the long regime of King Louis XV, when France lost the Seven Years' War with England, and lost much of its empire in Canada and India.
The novel tells the story of a French family of glassblowers, the Bussons, charting their journey before, during and after the French Revolution. [1] The story is based loosely on du Maurier's own family history, she being a fifth-generation descendant of a master glassblower who had moved to England during the French Revolution. [2]
Mauprat is a novel about love and education by the French novelist George Sand. It was published in serial form in the French literary magazine Revue des deux Mondes from April to June 1837. Like many of Sand's novels, Mauprat borrows from various fictional genres: the Gothic novel , chivalric romance , the Bildungsroman , detective fiction ...
Angélique is a series of thirteen historical adventure romance novels written by French author Anne Golon.Originally published from 1957 to 1985, the novels have reportedly sold 150 million copies worldwide [1] and have been adapted into six feature films, several theatre productions, a Japanese manga series, and a French "global manga" comic book series.