The French Generation of 1820

by Alan B. Spitzer

Alan Spitzer approaches the history of the French Restoration by examining the experience of a particular age group born between 1792 and 1803: the generation of 1820. A predominantly male, middle-class, educated minority of this group was perceived as representing all that was most promising and specifically youthful in the period. Their response to the pressures of transition was expressed in the fractious behavior of the youth of the schools, ''...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691054967
• ISBN13: 9780691054964
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"