Revolutionary France 1770-1880

Beginning in the last years of Louis XVI, the author provides an account of the years leading up to the Revolution and of the Revolution itself. Furet then look... » 

Beginning in the last years of Louis XVI, the author provides an account of the years leading up to the Revolution and of the Revolution itself. Furet then looks at Napoleon's rule, the two restorations of the monarchy, the uprisings of 1830, 1848 and 1871 and the resulting Third Republic. «