The French Revolution

1968 Funk & Wagnalls Paperback Edition (1st US)

The French Revolution marked the beginning of the modern era.  Its ideals of social equality and the national self-determination, which upset the well-ordered eighteenth-century world, have served as the mainspring for all subsequent political revolutions. 

This excellent study follows the Revolution from its mid-eighteenth-century origins through the fall of the throne, the Jacobin coup, the Terror, and the fall of Robespierre to the beginning of the Napoleonic era in 1799.  Major crises are analyzed in terms of the most recent scholarship, and contemporary interpretation sheds new light on the myths surrounding Marat the Terror and the Sans-culottes.