Monsieur Thermidor

Chef Henry finds that he cannot cook the lobster he was planning to make into soup, and as a gesture of thanks the lobster gives Henry the recipe for his famous seaweed soup.

Chef Henry finds that he cannot cook the lobster he was planning to make into soup, and as a gesture of thanks the lobster gives Henry the recipe for his famous seaweed soup.

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It is the end of the eighteenth century. France is ruled by controllers, who are blessed with the ability to shape matter at will. Edvard Thermidor was born among them, but he finds out – in the worst possible way – that he is not one of them. Kicked out of his world of privilege, he will discover that everything he knew was but a falsehood built on the backs of a subjugated race. With the most unexpected companions, Edvard will embark upon a precarious race to redeem himself and, perhaps, set off a revolution

Complete catalogue and index of one of the largest collections of its kind of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic newspapers pamphlets and official publications covering the years 1789-1815. Over 20,000 listings are preceded by an introduction giving a history of the collection, a survey of other notable French Revolution collections, and a biographical essay on William S. Maclure. William S. Maclure (1763-1840) was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, a radical social reformer, and our first scientific geologist. His huge collection of French Revolutionary publications is one of the greatest libraries of its kind to be formed during the period of the Revolution. Maclure bestowed the collection on the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural Sciences in 1821, and the Academy in turn gave the collection to the Historical Society of Philadelphia, In 1949 it was acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.

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