Quoted in Mason and Rizzo, The French Revolution, p. 58. 22. Quoted in Wright, The French Revolution, pp. 2–3. 23. Quoted in Hibbert, The Days of the French Revolution, pp. 53–54. 24. Leo Gershoy, The French Revolution and Napoléon.
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This book is structured around a number of important themes which run across the revolutionary decade, most notably the themes of political and social change.
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The French Revolution discusses one of the most tumultuous upheavals to established government in the last thousand years.
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