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The Last Judgment of Kings / Le Jugement dernier des rois: A Bilingual Edition

English, French

By (author): Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803)

Translated by: Yann Robert

First performed the day after Marie-Antoinettes beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of the remaining kings and queens of Europeparaded in chains like animals, made to brawl over a barrel of crackers, and finally obliterated by a spectacular volcanic eruption. Such is the shocking contextat once tragic and farcicalof the most infamous play of the French Revolution, familiar to all specialists of the period. Until now, however, no standalone critical edition or English translation of this historic play existed. This bilingual edition revives Maréchals play and reveals its centrality to scholarly debates about Revolutionary notions of justice, religion, commemoration, comedy, and propaganda. Provocative, written in accessible prose, and shortperfect for students in a French or history seminarLe Jugement dernier des rois offers an ideal introduction to the most important and contentious questions of the Revolutionary period.

Joué pour la première fois le lendemain de lexécution de Marie-Antoinette, Le Jugement dernier des rois met en scène le procès burlesque des autres rois et reines dEurope : exhibés et enchaînés tels des animaux, contraints de se battre pour un tonneau de biscuits, et finalement anéantis par léruption spectaculaire dun volcan. Tel est le contexte scandaleuxtragédie et farce à la foisde la pièce la plus célèbre de la Révolution française, bien connue de tous les spécialistes de cette période. Jusquà maintenant, pourtant, il nexistait ni édition critique ni traduction anglaise de cet ouvrage historique. Notre édition bilingue fait revivre la pièce de Maréchal et la replace au centre des plus grands débats chez les historiens de la Révolution, traitant de justice, religion, commémoration, comédie, et propagande. Provocateur, facile à lire, et concisparfaitement adapté aux étudiants dun cours de français ou dhistoireLe Jugement dernier des rois propose ainsi une introduction idéale à la période révolutionnaire et à ses principales controverses.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 13 Dec 2024

Product Details
  • Weight: 454g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Dec 2024
  • Publisher: Bucknell University PressU.S.
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English, French
  • ISBN13: 9781684485444

About Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803)

YANN ROBERT is an associate professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the author of Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution and with Mark Darlow of a critical edition of the revolutionary play LAmi des lois. YANN ROBERT enseigne dans le département détudes françaises et francophones à luniversité dIllinois Chicago. Il est lauteur de Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution et avec Mark Darlow dune édition critique de la pièce révolutionnaire LAmi des lois. SYLVAIN MARÉCHAL (17501803) was a French journalist philosopher political theorist and playwright famous for his militant atheism and radical egalitarianism.

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