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Hey lit, do you know a sort of search engine which provides you piece of writing about famous place.

For example : i want description of Paris after the revolution (1789). I need ambiances in the street, description of some places of interest. I want to read this by others writers not historical books.


I want also like to search for clothes or house interiors.
I want to see different point of views , to make my own idea.

Do you such a tool ?

>> No.1156231

OP Here : English is not my native language so sorry about the mistakes :)

>> No.1156234

There's no such "search engine." It's called RESEARCH.

There's plenty of contemporary accounts of the French Revolution from all perspectives---Jean-Baptiste Clery's Journal of the Terror springs into mind. I would look at whatever bibliography that Simon Schama used for Citizens or Hillary Mantel used for A Place of Greater Safety, and follow their suggestions for what THEY read.

For clothes, there are histories of costume---people in the film and theatre use them all the time for period dramas.

House interiors is a little more difficult when you're talking about an age before photography. Again, your best result is to just research in the painting / visual art of the time.

>> No.1156245

>>1156231
read old newspapers. Look at the ads for clothes, cars, furniture, and so fourth.

>> No.1156246

>>1156234
You wouldn't happen to know of any good books on the Spanish Inquisition, would you?

>> No.1156256
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>>1156229
You might want to read this.

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1156258

Also this.

>> No.1156263

>>1156246

This is a thread about the French Revolution. I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition...

First, if you want an Inquisitor's Manual, you'll have to read Bernard Gui's Practica Inquisitionis Heretice Pravitatis.

Also H. C. Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887) contains original documents.

That's a decent starting point for the Spanish Inquisition.

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1156274

>This is a thread about the French Revolution. I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition...
You never expect the Spanish Inquisition!

>> No.1156280

To writers : how do you make research in general ?

First Google ? go to a library and take notes ?
Buy many books for the period of interest ?

>> No.1156281

>>1156263
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it.

>> No.1156321

>>1156274
The macro of this was my background for months. makes me lol all the time.

>> No.1157131

bump for moar