History of the French Revolution

Michelet, Jules; Cocks, Charles

ISBN 10: 0999428314 / ISBN 13: 9780999428313

Editore: Antipodes Press, 2018

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• Titolo: History of the French Revolution
• Editore: Antipodes Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0999428314
• ISBN 13: 9780999428313
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

The Revolution, according to Jules Michelet (1798–1874), is the “tardy advent of Eternal Justice” against the tyranny of the monarchy. It is personified by the People, whose joy and misery Michelet evokes in every page of this “romantic history” of unprecedented social upheaval.

Charles Cocks’ translation of 1864 includes the first four Books of Michelet’s Histoire de la Revolution Française, covering events from the earliest indications of the Revolution to the King’s flight in 1791.

“...the cornerstone of all revolutionary historiography and a literary monument.”
– François Furet

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“...the cornerstone of all revolutionary historiography and a literary monument.”
—François Furet