The Last Libertines
Craveri, Benedetta / Kerner, Aaron An enthralling work of history about the Libertine generation that came up during-and was eventually destroyed by-the French Revolution.The Last Libertines, as Benedetta Craveri writes in her preface to the book, "tells the story of a group of young aristocrats living in the last days of the French monarchy, when it was still possible for the members of the elite to reconcile a way of life based on status and privilege with a belief, born of t...