A bold new history of the French Revolution from the standpoint of the peasants, workers, women and sans culottes
Eric Hazan is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of several books, including Notes on the Occupation and the highly acclaimed The Invention of Paris. He has lived in Paris, France, all his life.
A luminous book . resurrecting, day by day, week by week, the
essential moments of this singular epoch, where the most unbridled
enthusiasm, tragedy, courage, treachery mingle together . an
account capable of dispelling the boredom of previous conflicting
accounts. With this book with its multiple focal points and
perspectives, which allows the clamour of the French revolution to
be heard . a new momentum is found.
*Marianne*
A story of the Revolution which vividly revives the chain of
events, marking the rhythm of its episodes and their brutal
accelerations, and the phases of calm which succeed them.
*Sciences Humaines*
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