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La Vendée
Anthony Trollope
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They made a pretty scene, waiting there beneath the shade till their priest should come to lead them to some rural chapel. The bright colours worn by the women in their Sunday clothes, and the picturesque forms of the men, in their huge broad-brimmed flapping hats, harmonized well with the thick green foliage around them. They shewed no sign of impatience, they were quite content to wait there, and pray, or gossip, or make love to each other, till such time as Father Jerome should please to come; they had no idea that their time was badly spent in waiting for so good a man.
At any rate he came before they were tired, and with him came a man who was a stranger to them all, except to . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
This is Trollope's only historical novel. Although it was well received, it was written early in his career before he began to enjoy some popularity. It takes place during the Reign of Terror and is one story of Royalists resisting the republicans. There are two other novels of this very resistance:
Vendée, terres de souvenirs depuis mon enfance du fait de sa qualité de station balnéaire et de ses merveilleux paysages et autres activités réalisables mais également terres d’un passé riche et souvent violent que j’ai toujours voulu approfondir. En ce sens et appréciant le célèbre romancier pour s
A really pleasant surprise! Much better than when I read the book 30 years ago or so. Now I realized that the melodramatic language and action is purposeful and masterfully done, not just unsubtle inexperienced-author limitations. The battle scenes crackle (even though I hate battle scenes), and som
This was Trollope’s third published novel. And the least successful, getting him only 20 pounds. (Whereas Can you forgive her? made him more than 3000.)
And indeed it is not a very good one. At least not compared to his other efforts. It is a historical novel placed in the midst of the French Revolut
Wonderful! Unbelievable! Fabulous!
What an adventure Mr Trollope took us on!
I love that is was based on so much fact
I love the creativity he inserted to give us a feel of being right there with the Vendéens.
Theirs is a story that should be told and told and told!
It has been hidden long enough, the ve
An early novel by Trollope, and an interesting account of a period of French history I was not aware of: royalists who actively resisted the French Revolution. Many of the upper-class characters are one-dimensional and some of the dialogue is painfully moralistic and sappy, portraying the royalists
As usual with Trollope it was an easy read put lacked the subtlety and nuance of his later novels.
This is the book Trollope wrote before The Warden and one has to say the improvement from this to that is significant to say the least. The Vendee is an historical novel set in revolutionary France. The
I wish I could give this book a higher rating. I love Trollope, and I am a fervent admirer of the French counter-revolutionaries. His hero, the incredibly handsome and dashing aristo Henri de la Rochejacquelain, is a hero of mine too ("If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, shoot me! If I fall, aven