J. Christopher Herold Quote
A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.
J. Christopher Herold
A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.
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About J. Christopher Herold
Jean Christopher Herold (11 May 1919 – 10 December 1964) was a Czech-American university press editor and author. While holding an editorship for Columbia University Press from 1946 to 1956, Herold edited Columbia Encyclopedia articles about European history. From 1956 to 1960, Herold was the editor of Stanford University Press.
As an author, Herold primarily wrote French history books on Napoleon Bonaparte while also covering Joan of Arc and Madame de Staël. He won the 1959 National Book Award for Nonfiction with Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960. Herold was also given fellowships from the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of American Historians.
As an author, Herold primarily wrote French history books on Napoleon Bonaparte while also covering Joan of Arc and Madame de Staël. He won the 1959 National Book Award for Nonfiction with Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960. Herold was also given fellowships from the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of American Historians.