Revolutionary France, 1770-1880

Revolutionary France is a vivid narrative history.

It is also a radical reinterpretation of the period, and testimony to the power both of ideas and of personality in movements of the past.

• Francois Furet is France's leading historian of the period
• A work of great range and originality that was a bestseller in France
• Illustrated with paintings, cartoons, maps and chronological charts.