French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

Doyle, William (Emeritus Professor of History and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol)

Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, garnered from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours, Doyle leads the reader to the realization that we are still living with developments and consequences of the French Re...