The French Revolution
The best books that are about, set in, or written in the French Revolution time period.
Fiction, non-fiction and poetry all allowed.
1 A Tale of Two Cities
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 408,868 ratings
2 The Scarlet Pimpernel
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 57,520 ratings
3 Courage
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
4 Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 16,176 ratings
5 Madame Tussaud: A Novel of ...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 7,814 ratings
6 Citizens: A Chronicle of th...
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 1,771 ratings
7 The French Revolution: A Hi...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 184 ratings
8 Scaramouche
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
9 The Persecution and Assassi...
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4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,724 ratings
10 The Elusive Pimpernel
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 946 ratings
11 The Glass-Blowers
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 846 ratings
12 Revolution
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 12,909 ratings
13 The Knight of Maison-Rouge
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 694 ratings
14 A Place of Greater Safety
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
15 Twelve Who Ruled: The Year ...
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 113 ratings
16 The Adventures of the Scarl...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 454 ratings
17 The Gods Will Have Blood
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3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 452 ratings
18 El Dorado: Further Adventur...
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 665 ratings
19 Dantons Tod
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3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 460 ratings
20 The League Of The Scarlet P...
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 520 ratings
21 The Old Regime and the Fren...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 416 ratings
21 Fatal Purity: Robespierre a...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 254 ratings
23 The Triumph of the Scarlet ...
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 335 ratings
24 Marie Antoinette: The Portr...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 839 ratings
25 City of Darkness, City of L...
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 612 ratings
26 Abundance: A Novel of Marie...
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 5,096 ratings
27 The Chouans
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3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 218 ratings
28 The Countess de Charny
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 104 ratings
29 The Companions of Jehu
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 61 ratings
30 Fouché
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4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 354 ratings
31 Taking the Bastile
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 102 ratings
32 The Days of the French Revo...
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 425 ratings
33 The Road from Versailles: L...
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings
34 Quatre-Vingt-Treiz
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
35 The Whites and the Blues
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
36 Reflections on the Revoluti...
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3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 1,592 ratings
37 The woman with the velvet n...
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 64 ratings
38 La Comtesse de Rudolstadt
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 95 ratings
39 Virtue and Terror
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 87 ratings
40 La Confession de Talleyrand...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
41 Robespierre
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
42 Marat : Ecrits
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
43 The Red Necklace (French Re...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 3,569 ratings
43 A Far Better Rest
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 40 ratings
45 Game of Patience (Aristide ...
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 104 ratings
46 The Gods Are Thirsty: A Nov...
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3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 73 ratings
47 The Josephine B. Trilogy
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4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 2,402 ratings
48 Le Chevalier Des Touches
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3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
49 Paris in the Terror
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 49 ratings
50 Sir Percy Leads the Band
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3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 218 ratings
51 Mam'zelle Guillotine
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 94 ratings
52 An Episode Under the Terror
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3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 41 ratings
53 Andrea Chenier: An Opera in...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
54 Posies de Andr Chnier: Diti...
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
54 Louis Xvi
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
56 Long Affair: Thomas Jeffers...
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3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
57 Reasons for Wishing to Pres...
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3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
58 The Great Upheaval: America...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 574 ratings
58 Past Her Time
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4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
58 The Time of Terror (Nathan ...
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 54 ratings
58 The Valley of Heaven and He...
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 43 ratings
58 The Pale Assassin (Pimperne...
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
58 Jean-Baptiste Cléry: Eyewit...
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
58 A Critical Dictionary of th...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
58 Glory and Terror: Seven Dea...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
58 The Many Lives & Secret Sor...
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 5,347 ratings
58 Politics, Culture, and Clas...
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 76 ratings
58 The Crowd in the French Rev...
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3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 28 ratings
58 A Short History of the Fren...
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3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 75 ratings
58 Bluebird, or The Invention ...
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3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 130 ratings
58 The Fatal Friendship: Marie...
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
72 Sovay
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 2,416 ratings
72 The Deaths of Louis XVI: Re...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
72 Tales of Passion, Tales of ...
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 2,569 ratings
72 Rebel Daughters: Women and ...
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2.6 of 5 stars 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
72 The French Revolution: A Hi...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 184 ratings
72 Marie Antoinette
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3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 50 ratings
78 Ramage (The Lord Ramage Nov...
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 519 ratings
78 In the Reign of Terror: The...
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 226 ratings
78 The Last Great Dance on Ear...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 2,105 ratings
78 Palace of Justice (Aristide...
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings
78 In Search of Honor
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 168 ratings
78 Women and the Public Sphere...
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3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
78 Trianon: A Novel of Royal F...
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 44 ratings
78 Twelve Who Ruled: The Year ...
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 113 ratings
86 My Lady Ludlow
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3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 168 ratings
86 The One Thing More
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3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
86 A Treasury of Regrets (Aris...
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3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 61 ratings
86 Liberty: The Lives and Time...
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 113 ratings
86 Ninety-Three
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
91 No Surrender!
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 32 ratings
91 The Cavalier of the Apocaly...
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3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 93 ratings
93 Seven Ages of Paris
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 625 ratings
94 The Lost King of France: Ho...
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 627 ratings
95 Talleyrand
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 70 ratings
95 The Terror: The Shadow of t...
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3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
97 Queen of Fashion: What Mari...
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
98 The Nights Of Paris
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
99 I Will Repay
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 378 ratings
100 Poètes de 1989 et la Révo...
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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message 1: by [deleted user] (new)

How come Les Miserables isn't on here???? Hehehe


message 2: by Susanna (last edited May 27, 2011 02:46pm) (new)

Susanna You could add it.

ETA: Isn't Les Miserables set in the early 1800s? I think it starts in about 1815.


message 3: by Julia (last edited May 28, 2011 07:22am) (new)

Julia Boechat Machado The story of Les Misérables starts in 1815, Susanna is right.


message 4: by Julia (last edited Nov 16, 2011 03:04pm) (new)

Julia Boechat Machado I'm going to remove Les Misérables, since it is set from 1815 to June Rebellion, aka The Paris Uprising of 1832, not during the French Revolution.


message 5: by Elisabeth (new)

Elisabeth I added Elizabeth Gaskell's My Lady Ludlow because, even though it is a mainly English story, there is a story-within-the-story about the French Revolution that takes up a good part of the book (almost a third, I'd say).


message 6: by Swiss (new)

Swiss deleted user wrote: "How come Les Miserables isn't on here???? Hehehe"

Les Miserables is not about the French Revolution; it's about the June Rebellion of 1832.


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