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The French Revolution

The French Revolution

By Ian Davidson

From Enlightenment to Tyranny. Pegasus Books, 2018

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A thoroughly enriching tour of the French Revolution from its early stages, where the Revolutionaries achieved their aims according to the law, to the later recriminations and Terror, evoking the full complexity of this monumental and puzzling historical event.

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What do you get from this book? An even-handed account of the dizzying complexity of the French Revolution
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Louis XVI and his regime’s financial problems created an opening for the middle class to peacefully demand involvement in politics
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The Third Estate took matters into their own hands and established a new National Assembly for governing France
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The working people of Paris, inspired by the Third Estate’s revolt, raised the curtain on Revolutionary violence at the Bastille
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With the King trapped in his Paris palace, the National Assembly nationalized Church property and issued a dud currency
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The Revolutionaries, apparently protecting their new order, engaged in war with an Austria that wanted Louis back on the throne
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The August 10, 1792 insurrection at Paris abolished the monarchy for good and ushered in the French First Republic
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Robespierre and his radical allies took control of the Jacobins, just as French victories inspired a new policy of conquest
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Louis XVI’s execution and French victory at Valmy alarmed Europe, while the Revolutionaries committed massacres inside France in the Vendée
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The Terror left a permanent stain on the ideals of the Revolution and finally led to Robespierre’s fall
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The aftermath of Robespierre’s fall brought coups and the eventual rise of Napoleon and the French Empire
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Selected critiques in brief
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Who should read The French Revolution

Political buffs • activists • philosophers • Francophiles • readers of tragedies • those looking to understand modern Europe

About the author of The French Revolution

Ian Davidson is a journalist and author who has previously worked as the Paris correspondent for the Financial Times. He is a Cambridge graduate with a degree in Classics. His other books include Voltaire in Exile (2006) and Voltaire: A Life (2012).

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