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(4.5) | None | "The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, "tells the story of a group of young aristocrats living in the last days of the French monarchy, when it was still possible for the members of the elite to reconcile a way of life based on status and privilege with a belief, born of the Enlightenment, in the necessity for social transformation and the new ideals of justice, tolerance, and civility." Here we meet seven emblematic characters, whom Craveri has singled out not only for the "novelistic quality of their lives and loves" but also, perhaps above all, for the fully conscious way in which they confronted the crisis of the ancien régime while looking ahead to a new world being born. Displaying the aristocratic virtues of "pride, courage, fashionable elegance, culture, spiritedness, and conviviality," the duc de Lauzun, the comte de Segur, the vicomte de Segur, the duc de Brissac, the comte de Narbonnes, the comte de Vaudreuil, and the chevalier de Boufflers were not only masters of the art of seduction but true sons of the Enlightenment, all ambitious to play their part in bringing around the great changes that were in the air. When the French Revolution came, however, they were condemned to poverty, exile, and in some cases execution. Telling the parallel lives of these seven dazzling but little-remembered historical figures, Craveri brings to light a vanished civilization and dramatizes a time of turmoil that may be said to anticipate our own"--… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions "The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, "tells the story of a group of young aristocrats living in the last days of the French monarchy, when it was still possible for the members of the elite to reconcile a way of life based on status and privilege with a belief, born of the Enlightenment, in the necessity for social transformation and the new ideals of justice, tolerance, and civility." Here we meet seven emblematic characters, whom Craveri has singled out not only for the "novelistic quality of their lives and loves" but also, perhaps above all, for the fully conscious way in which they confronted the crisis of the ancien régime while looking ahead to a new world being born. Displaying the aristocratic virtues of "pride, courage, fashionable elegance, culture, spiritedness, and conviviality," the duc de Lauzun, the comte de Segur, the vicomte de Segur, the duc de Brissac, the comte de Narbonnes, the comte de Vaudreuil, and the chevalier de Boufflers were not only masters of the art of seduction but true sons of the Enlightenment, all ambitious to play their part in bringing around the great changes that were in the air. When the French Revolution came, however, they were condemned to poverty, exile, and in some cases execution. Telling the parallel lives of these seven dazzling but little-remembered historical figures, Craveri brings to light a vanished civilization and dramatizes a time of turmoil that may be said to anticipate our own"-- ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Benedetta Craveri nos presenta en este libro las vidas de siete jóvenes aristócratas brillantes y virtuosos; nos cuenta de qué forma estos hijos de la Ilustración intentaron conciliar una vida de privilegios con la necesidad de cambio acorde con los preceptos de la Revolución francesa. Con el equilibrio de rigurosidad y maestría narrativa que la caracteriza, Craveri nos ofrece también un nuevo y original enfoque sobre una de las épocas más convulsas de la historia social y política de nuestra civilización; el final del Antiguo Régimen y el inicio de la democracia europea.
Refinados y aventureros, representantes de una forma de vida que estaba a punto de terminar, concebían el matrimonio como una convención de artificio mientras alternaban una emocionante vida amorosa sin freno ni límites con la actividad política; buscaban hacerse un sitio cerca del poder mediante estrategias ingeniosas, alianzas camaleónicas e intrigas sagaces y a menudo crueles.
Disidentes ideológicos en distintos grados y formas del Régimen absolutista cuyos días estaban contados, el duque de Lauzun, el vizconde y el conde de Ségur, el duque de Brissac, el conde de Narbonne, el caballero de Boufflers y el conde de Vaudreuil ―los siete protagonistas de este libro― se vieron arrastrados por las circunstancias históricas y también por su linaje. Todos pagaron un alto precio por ello y eligieron distintos caminos: algunos optaron por las armas, otros por el exilio, pero para todos llegó de forma implacable el final de un mundo hasta entonces compartido.  | |
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