Revolutionary France
is a vivid narrative history. It is also a radical reinterpretation of the period, and testimony to the power both of ideas and of personality in movements of the past.List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
Foreword.
Part I: The French Revolution.
1. The Ancien Regime.
2. The Revolution of 1789.
3. The Jacobin Republic.
4. The Thermidorian Republic.
5. Napoleon Bonaparte.
Part II: Ending the Revolution.
6. The Restoration.
7. The July Monarchy.
8. The Second Republic.
9. The Second Empire.
10. The Republic.
Appendix 1: Chronology.
Appendix 2: The Republican Calendar for Year II (1793-1794).
Bibliography.
Glossary.
Index of Names.
Index of Subjects.
An outstanding work of synthesis and imagination. Ian McIntyre,
The Times This brilliant book by one of France's leading historians is the second to be published in a five-volume History of France from 987 to 1987. It is as elegantly written as it is translated. The style is lively. Sunday Telegraph
Everyone interested in the French Revolution and its consequences should read this important, stimulating and accessible book. Times Literary Supplement
Anyone with an interest in the period will find, along with a rich and powerful narrative, some remarkably stimulating, profound and humane reflections on France's complex political experience. Times Higher Education Supplement
An impressive, even dazzling achievement.
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