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To Quell the Terror: The Mystery of the Vocation of the Sixteen Carmelites of Compiegne Guillotined July 17, 1794

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 272.9094435
EAN: 9780935216677
ISBN: 0935216677
Label: ICS Publications
Manufacturer: ICS Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 243
Publication Date: 1999-11
Publisher: ICS Publications
Studio: ICS Publications


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Summary: Seriously Flawed History
Comment: Beginning with what's positive in this story of the 16 martyred Carmelite nuns, the sections that actually deal with the lives of the Carmelites in Revolutionary France are quite interesting, and anyone who has seen and loved "Dialogues of the Carmelites" will find something to savor in his narrative.

That being said, Bush's history of the French Revolution is nothing short of flawed, biased, and, often, inaccurate. As another reviewer has said, Bush, a self-professed "Orthodox Christian," presents the French Revolution as a Great Satan unleashed to destroy the Catholic Church. Inequality in Pre-Revolutionary France is completely ignored. Early on, he condemns the Revolution for the banning of Monastic Vows (which, he claims took place in October, 1789, when it actually occurred in February, 1790). He also condemns the Revolution for the confiscation of Church property, while failing to mention that the Church was one of the largest landowners (untaxed, by the way) in Pre-Revolutionary France and that the Church heavily taxed the Third Estate through a tithe. He seems to relish inventing a his own version of the French Revolution while failing to take into account not only the generation of scholars that went before him but any primary sources not currently kept in a Church archive.

He also presumes a good deal of knowledge of French Revolutionary History on the part of his reader--so, if it's been a while since you last thought about the Revolution, be prepared to run to for the nearest encyclopedia every so often.

Still, his material on the Martyred Carmelites is gripping and presents a nice companion to "The Dialogues of the Carmelites." Just be forewarned that Professor Bush is not a historian of the French Revolution, wears his biases on his sleeve, and is only telling part of the story.

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Summary: Martrydom to restore Peace
Comment: Author, William Bush has researched and revealed the mystery of sacrifice of 16 Carmelite Nuns during the French Revolution. TO QUELL THE TERROR exposes the dark side of the French Revolution. The lunacy and injustice of the leaders of the period were committed to destroy the Church and religious faith. The nuns offered their lives to restore peace to the church and to France. Ten days after their deaths Robespierre fell and with his execution at the same scaffold used for the Carmelites the Terror effectivlely ended. Eye opening and informative read.
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Summary: An original perspective, a worthy effort, but...
Comment: ...I would tend to agree with an earlier reviewer who spoke of this work as a "religious tract." The author seems so invested in his thesis of "revolution as Satanic plot" that he does tend to beat the reader over the head--and also seems to give Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the doomed king and queen of the time, more credit as rulers than they are due, based on his own admiration for thier personal piety and good character. Those familiar with more recent history need look no further than Nicholas II and Alexandra of Russia (and Alexandra, somewhat ironically, strongly identified with Marie Antoinette) to realize that one can be personally devout, upright and ethical, yet a complete disaster as a ruler. Given the nature of the subject, getting any "ultimate" insight into the minds of those 16 nuns may be an impossible task--writing as a hagiographer, conciously or not, is not perhaps the best way to come close.
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Summary: Surprising and informative
Comment: Very interesting information about the French Revolution. In school no one ever breathed a word about how anti-Christian and anti-Jewish the French Revolution was! I was taught in school that it was the French equivalent to the American Revolution. Gasp! It was nothing of the kind. Did you know they abolished the seven day Jewish/Christian week and had a 10 day week? If you want to know more about the martyrs of the French Revolution this will be a good book to start with.
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Summary: Doomed to Repeat?
Comment: This work would have benefited from editing. It tends to jump from person to person, place to place, time to time. Nevertheless it is the first work I have had the good fortune to read that is unafraid to expose the underlying causes of the French Revolution, and to reveal something more than the popular characterizations of its leading actors.
The sixteen women who are the focus of this account are true heroines, true martyrs of the Revolution. The author has done us a great service in providing non-fictionalized biographies of these Carmelite nuns - they represent sincere people from every walk in life who are determined to follow their consciences no matter what 'everyone else' may think and do.
May their history inspire our compatriots to imitate their example, cost what it may.

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