French Revolution, The: A History

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French Revolution, The: A History, by T. Carlyle, published 1837.

It is in three volumes, ‘The Bastille’, ‘The Constitution’, and ‘The Guillotine’; it opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774, covers the reign of Louis XVI, the period which included the assembly of the States General, the fall of the Bastille, the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies, the flight of the king to Varennes, the Convention, the trial and execution of the king and queen, the reign of terror, the fall of Robespierre, and extends to 5 Oct. 1795, when Bonaparte quelled the insurrection of the Vendémiaire, the title of the last chapter being ‘The Whiff of Grapeshot’. It is a work of great narrative and descriptive power, with a notable gallery of portraits (Mirabeau, Lafayette, Danton, Robespierre).

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