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This concise reference source on the cataclysmic French Revolution contains essays, biographical profiles, primary documents, and more.

Table of Contents

Contents Series Foreword by Linda S. Frey and Marsha L. Frey Preface Chronology of Events Historical Overview: "Experience teaches us that generally speaking, the most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways." Crisis of the Ancien Regime: "Man was born free and everywhere is in chains." The Terror: "Pity is not revolutionary." A New Political Culture: "Nothing in the Revolution, no, not to a gesture, not to the fashion of a hat or a shoe, was left to accident." Diplomacy and Revolution: "The reign of the charlatans is over." War and Revolution: "War to the chateaux, peace to the cottages." An Ambiguous Legacy: "A nursery of future revolutions." Biographies: The Personalities of the French Revolution Glossary of Selected Terms Annotated Bibliography Index

About the Author

LINDA S. FREY is Professor of History at the University of Montana. MARSHA L. FREY is Professor of History at Kansas State University. With Linda S. Frey, she is co-author of A History of Diplomatic Immunity and also serves as series editors for the Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500-1900.

Reviews

?[T]he book fulfills its goal of serving as a useful starting point for the study of the Revolution.?-The Historian

"ÝT¨he book fulfills its goal of serving as a useful starting point for the study of the Revolution."-The Historian

"[T]he book fulfills its goal of serving as a useful starting point for the study of the Revolution."-The Historian