The French Revolution, 1788-1792

“The first English translation of what has long been considered a classic in Europe…it is easy to see why the work has been held in such esteem abroad.”—The New Yorker THE word ‘revolution’ may mean either the forcible overthrow of an established social or political order or any great change brought about in a pre-existing situation, even slowly and without violence. The word can be used in both senses for the upheaval that took place in France towards the end of the eighteenth century. In so fa