The Coming of the French Revolution

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HISTORY The Coming Qf the
French Revolution
"The volume as a whole clearly reveals the combination of qualities that make Lefebvre unique as a historian of probably the most passionately controversial period of modern history. Those are the virtues of great learning gracefully worn; psychological finesse; keen appreciation of the role of personality and of the influence of chance, as well, of course, as that of institutional relations; compassion for the unfortunate, and a magnificent talent for lucid and vigorous expression of balanced judgments. . . .
The author disclaims any other intention than that of reconstructing the main outlines of the four acts into which he arranges the revolutionary happenings from roughly the summer of 1788 to October, 1789. These developments he calls the aristocratic, the bourgeois, the popular and the peasant revolutions. Moments of deepest dramatic intensity —the storming of the Bastille, the unbelievable and mad night of August 4 which made a... Tovább

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HISTORY The Coming Qf the
French Revolution
"The volume as a whole clearly reveals the combination of qualities that make Lefebvre unique as a historian of probably the most passionately controversial period of modern history. Those are the virtues of great learning gracefully worn; psychological finesse; keen appreciation of the role of personality and of the influence of chance, as well, of course, as that of institutional relations; compassion for the unfortunate, and a magnificent talent for lucid and vigorous expression of balanced judgments. . . .
The author disclaims any other intention than that of reconstructing the main outlines of the four acts into which he arranges the revolutionary happenings from roughly the summer of 1788 to October, 1789. These developments he calls the aristocratic, the bourgeois, the popular and the peasant revolutions. Moments of deepest dramatic intensity —the storming of the Bastille, the unbelievable and mad night of August 4 which made a holocaust (at least on paper) of the Old Regime, the contagious sweep of the Great Fear, and the turbulent march of Paris on Versailles early in October—all fall within that year of crisis. Brilliantly as Lefebvre treats them and the actors, he actually does far more than present them with sympathy, lucidity and understanding. For each one of these major phases is also placed in its historical setting. . . ."—Leo Gershoy, New York Herald Tribune Vissza