Monday, February 03, 2003

I have started To Quell The Terror, The True Story of the Carmelite Martyrs of Campiegne by William Bush who is an Orthodox Christian. I knew I would like it from the introduction alone. Mr. Bush explains he wanted to write the historical and true story of the nuns massacred during the French Revolution. Their story had been turned into a novel, a film, and an opera (that just was recently staged by the Met in NYC). These fictional accounts took many liberties and Bush wants the actual story to be told. The introduction touches on a topic I am interested in: the French Revolution was not the enlightened affair that went wrong later on with the Reign of Terror. It was rotten from the beginning although this has not been the popular teaching. This book should be interesting.

No comments: