![]() ![]() Schama analyzes the crippling national debt that heralded the fall of the monarchy and assesses the cultural importance of Sevres demitasse cups decorated with likenesses of Louis XVI's severed head. Schama, who teaches history at Harvard, depends on the most astute recent scholarship while evoking the narrative sweep of his 19th-century predecessors Michelet and Tocqueville, writers who knew that history was a story before it was an academic discipline. ![]() ''Citizens,'' Simon Schama's extravagant chronicle of the revolution, restores its huge complexity. ''Liberty, fraternity, equality,'' the storming of the Bastille and the apochryphal ''Let them eat cake'' stand in for a decade of ferocious social and political change. ![]() ![]() Scholars have subdivided it into ever narrower sections - from political to Marxist to demographic - while in the popular imagination it has been reduced to a few weighty phrases and images. $29.95įor the best and the worst of reasons, the French Revolution has been chopped to bits. Citizens A Chronicle of the French Revolution By Simon Schama Illustrated. ![]()
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