French Revolution

The French Revolution (French: Révolution française; 1789–1799) was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from liberal political groups and the masses on the streets. Old ideas about hierarchy and tradition succumbed to new Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.
The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convoc
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A Great Act of Love: A Novel
The Women of Chateau Lafayette
The Tides of Time (A Storm Tide Romance, #1)
A Far Better Thing
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
The Woman in the Wallpaper
Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)
The School of Mirrors
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
Everything That Burns (Enchantée, #2)
Along a Breton Shore
Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
A Tale of Two Cities
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
A Place of Greater Safety
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
Les Misérables
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
Revolution
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Reflections on the Revolution in France
The Red Necklace (French Revolution, #1)
The Oxford History of the French Revolution
The French Revolution: A History
The Lacemaker and the Princess by Kimberly Brubaker BradleyA Place of Greater Safety by Hilary MantelFrom the Ashes of Saint-Domingue by Karrah CheruiyotFreedom's Cost by Janet UhlarThe Bookmark by Anne Supsic
Marquis de Lafayette Fiction
6 books — 3 voters

The French Revolution by Gary KatesPolitics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn HuntWomen and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution by Olwen H. HuftonThe Family Romance of the French Revolution by Lynn HuntA Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jean Jaurès
French Revolution Historiography
36 books — 2 voters
The Mask Revealed by Julia BrannanMask of Duplicity by Julia BrannanThe Gathering Storm by Julia BrannanLiberty or Death by David        CookThe Storm Breaks by Julia Brannan
Best 1700s Historical Fiction
99 books — 161 voters

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Fiction Set During French Revolution
35 books — 63 voters
Marie Antoinette by Kathryn LaskyThe Wardrobe Mistress by Meghan MastersonMadame Tussaud by Michelle    MoranFlaunting, Extravagant Queen by Jean PlaidyBecoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
Novels About Marie-Antoinette
12 books — 24 voters


Wilhelm Reich
It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal. This, little man, is what you have done with Christia ...more
Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

After the defeat of the German Revolution in 1848 German Nationalism lost much of its original liberalism. Worship of State and Race began to predominate over the principle of Liberty, taken by the Germans from the French Revolution. The Austro-German bourgeoisie of Vienna and Bohemia turned its back on liberalism, and plunged into an orgy of intolerant romantic nationalism. Liberalism was left more and more to the Jews who, as a socially inferior group, were naturally more inclined to see the v ...more
Hugh Seton-Watson, Eastern Europe Between the Wars: 1918-1941

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