Friday, May 1 – 12:00 NY / 17:00 London / 18:00 Paris
1832: the year that changed France
with Maurice Samuels, professor of French at Yale
For all ages.
It’s the year of the great cholera outbreak, France’s first anti-Semitic scandal, a failed royalist revolution and the setting for Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Direct from quarantine in Michigan, Maurice Samuels – who teaches the literature and culture of nineteenth-century France at Yale – will explain why 1832 is a pivotal year that still impacts modern-day France. He’s the author of the just released book The Betrayal of the Duchess, about duchesse de Berry’s quest to reconquer the French throne for the Bourbons in 1832 – and the advisor who betrayed her.
Use this link: https://zoom.us/j/7917404469
Meeting ID: 791 740 4469
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Information about the book: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/maurice-samuels/the-betrayal-of-the-duchess/9781541645462/