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[267] [268] His major work, The French Revolution, a Political History, 1789–1804 (1905), was a democratic and republican interpretation of the Revolution. [269] Socio-economic analysis and a focus on the experiences of ordinary people dominated French studies of the Revolution from the 1930s. [270]
L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856) is a work by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville translated in English as either The Old Regime and the Revolution or The Old Regime and the French Revolution. The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution, the Ancien Régime, and investigates the forces that caused the Revolution ...
The French Revolution had a major impact on Europe and the New World. Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events in European history. [1] [2] [3] In the short-term, France lost thousands of its countrymen in the form of émigrés, or emigrants who wished to escape political tensions and save their lives.
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre (2014) Jones, Rhys. "Time Warps During the French Revolution." Past & Present 254.1 (2022): 87-125. Kafker, Frank A. and James M. Laux, eds. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations (5th ed. 2002) Kaplan, Steven Laurence.
At its height, Poujade’s movement, the Union de Défense des Commerçants et des Artisans (Union for the Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans) grew to 800,000 members, mostly in the small towns and ...
Georges Lefebvre (French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləfɛvʁ]; 6 August 1874 – 28 August 1959) was a French historian, best known for his work on the French Revolution and peasant life. He is considered one of the pioneers of "history from below". [1] He coined the phrase the "death certificate of the old order" to describe the Great Fear of 1789.
France is a country that's no stranger to protest movements—from the massive student demonstrations of 1968 to contemporary union-led strikes. But during the "yellow vest" protests that rocked ...
The Irish revolutionary John Mitchel called the French Revolution "the profoundest book, and the most eloquent and fascinating history, that English literature ever produced." [ 15 ] Florence Edward MacCarthy, son of Denis MacCarthy , remarked that "Perhaps more than any other, it stimulated poor John Mitchel & led to his fate in 1848", i.e ...