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A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian
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One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama's Citizens- A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural ...
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI
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A prism into the most controversial period of twentieth-century French history, from one of the great contemporary historians of France
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A bold account of property reform during the French Revolution, arguing that the lofty democratic ideals enshrined by revolutionary leaders were rarely secured in practice-with ...
A short, brilliant and controversial new interpretation of arguably the most important revolution of all time: the event that made the rights of man and ...
The second part of an infamous memoir about life in the time of Napoleon by a rebellious literary celebrity.
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A concise history of France from prehistory to the present, recounting the great events and personalities and exploring France's cultural and political influence today ...
New in paperback - In this biography Sara Cockerill has gone back to the primary sources, and the wealth of recent first-rate scholarship, and assessed which ...