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Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution / Simon Schama

By:

Schama, Simon

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books , 1990.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: xx, 948 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780679726104

Subject(s):

France -- -History -- -Revolution, 1789-1799

DDC classification:

944.04 SCH

LOC classification:

DC148 .S43 1990

Summary: This well-written, thoroughly documented book explains the self-destructive, bloody orgy that occurred in France but not in England or Prussia, countries in similar states of poverty and with similarly deprived, disenfranchised populaces. Schama theorizes that the cause of France's revolution lies in the self-deception of the ruling intelligentsia, who believed that they could make a Utopian France by allowing controlled violence, murder, and the destruction of property in the name of liberty, and all to exist simultaneously with good government.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 879-906) and index.

This well-written, thoroughly documented book explains the self-destructive, bloody orgy that occurred in France but not in England or Prussia, countries in similar states of poverty and with similarly deprived, disenfranchised populaces. Schama theorizes that the cause of France's revolution lies in the self-deception of the ruling intelligentsia, who believed that they could make a Utopian France by allowing controlled violence, murder, and the destruction of property in the name of liberty, and all to exist simultaneously with good government.

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