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Remove the over-arching political, financial and cultural rationales (all intellect, in essence) from the revolutionary equation and what we're left with are men (and a very few women) struggling with the Oedipal dilemma writ large. Because the author chooses to concentrate exclusively on the character of the major players and the tenor of the events they wrought - eschewing ideals and philosophies - that madness is granted center stage. This is roughly ten years of a country's journey from negotiable concern to rampant homicidal psychosis. Remove the over-arching political, financial and cultural rationales (all intel Hibbert covers the French Revolution from the meeting of the Estates General to the emergence of Napoleon.
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Hibbert covers the French Revolution from the meeting of the Estates General to the emergence of Napoleon. Unless you like lectures over the buttered trout. There is the usual can't-see-the-wood-for-the-trees problem in this book as with most historiography - I would moan that the participants in this dizzy dance of death should be grasped more meaningfully than jargonny epithets like enrages, Septembrists, Dantonists, Montagnards, or Thermidoreans allow - but I can't deny that the whole thing rattles along faster than a tumbril en route to the Place de la Chop Your Head Off, and those tumbrils were fast. Hard to figure out who was left alive in Paris after 1795, fully functioning necks being a rare luxury. Frankly, it's one damned thing after another - each thing usually being more hacked about and with more bleeding orifices than the last one. There is the usual can't-see-the-wood-for-the-trees problem in this book as with most historiography - I would moan that the participants in this dizzy dance of Excellent account but my God the French Revolution was total merde and completely exhausting. Married with three children, he lives in Oxfordshire.moreĮxcellent account but my God the French Revolution was total merde and completely exhausting. Described by the New Statesman as "a pearl of biographers," he has established himself as a leading popular historian whose works reflect meticulous scholarship and has written more than twenty-five histories and biographies. Described bĬHRISTOPHER HIBBERT was born in Leicester in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. A tide of ebullient social change through wars, riots, beheadings, betrayal, conspiracy, and murder.ĬHRISTOPHER HIBBERT was born in Leicester in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. A passionate throng of Parisian artisans storming the Bastille.