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Clarke, S: The French Revolution and What Went Wrong

By Stephen Clarke

Clarke, S: The French Revolution and What Went Wrong Politics & History

Clarke, S: The French Revolution and What Went Wrong

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In the ensuing years, we are told, France was heroically transformed into an idyll of Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité. In fact, as Stephen Clarke argues in his informative and eye-opening account of the French Revolution, almost all of this is completely untrue. In 1789 almost no one wanted to oust King Louis XVI, let alone guillotine him. While the Bastille was being stormed by out-of-control Parisians, the true democrats were at work in Versailles creating a British-style constitutional monarchy. The founding of the Republic in 1792 unleashed a reign of terror that caused about 300,000 violent deaths. And people hailed today as revolutionary heroes were dangerous opportunists, whose espousal of Liberté, Egalité and Fraternité did not stop them massacring political opponents and guillotining women for demanding equal rights. Going back to original French sources, Stephen Clarke has uncovered the little-known and rarely told story of what was really happening in revolutionary France, as well as what went so tragically and bloodily wrong.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
592
Release Date:
2018-05-03
Publication Date:
2018-05-03
Publisher:
Random House UK Ltd
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1780895526
ISBN13:
9781780895529
Weight:
802 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
48 cm
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