Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution.(Book review)

The Historian | March 22, 2006| | Copyright

Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution. By Alan Forrest. (London: Arnold, 2004. Pp. viii, 259. $19.95.)

"Tensions between Paris and the provinces ... have played an important role in French history," writes the author of this study at the opening of his book, which is a thorough, readable, and, indeed, useful review of the political dynamic between Paris and the French provinces during the French Revolution. The thrust of Alan Forrest's study is that the French Revolution inherited the Old Regime's political, economic, cultural, and social tensions between ...

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