Through the life of a little known French political figure, Tindall recreates the world of the master stone masons of France, those builders of the Pantheon and the Louvre, and brings to life the turbulent atmosphere of Paris and London in the mid-19th century. This elegantly written literary work is an exceptional piece of miniaturist history.
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Through the life of a little known French political figure, Tindall recreates the world of the master stone masons of France, those builders of the Pantheon and the Louvre, and brings to life the turbulent atmosphere of Paris and London in the mid-19th century. This elegantly written literary work is an exceptional piece of miniaturist history.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 0701168676.
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Good. Good Jacket. Size: 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo); Title-The Journey of Martin Nadaud. First Edition. Hardcover. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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Very Good jacket. First Edition. First Editionl. DJ in overall very good condition. Boards and spine tight. Nice copy, with little to no wear. Pages clean like new with no apparent marks throughout this book. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 0701168676. Tanning of pages as is common in British publications of this era; Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. A bright, solid book.; B&W Photographs; 8.50 X 5.51 X 1.18 inches; 310 pages; "An exceptional work of miniaturist history that recreates through the life of a little-known figure the turbulent worlds of Paris and London in the mid-nineteenth century." "Martin Nadaud (1815-1898) was a prominent and self-made figure of 19th-century French politics. Nadaud's life began and ended in the Creuse, a region in central France notable for its export of stone masons on annual migrations to construct the great public buildings of Paris. Nadaud entered history at age 14 on the first of his many treks to Paris. There, in addition to learning the mason's craft, he began to educate himself about the political interests of the working classes. In this way Nadaud began the journey of the book's title, which brought him to Parliament as its first working-class member; to a long exile in England when his liberal republicanism was displaced by the Second Empire of Louis Napoleon; and again to senior positions in the French government when Louis Napoleon fell in 1870. Tindall's account is especially strong in her evocation of the physical settings of Nadaud's life: the atmospherics of a Creusois village, the emergence of Paris as a modern city, and England during the Industrial Revolution. Nadaud, however, remains elusive as a personality. In part, this is because his memoirs and surviving letters tend to veil his experience as a private man. Historian Tindall (Celestine; Countries of the Mind) extracts all she can from the materials at her disposal, but the inner character of her subject stubbornly resists disclosure. We are left with a public figure compounded out of strenuous manual labor, impressive efforts at self-education and a dedication to the well-being of workers like himself."
