The French Revolution at the end of the Cold War
Lynn Hunt, 25 February 1993
Revolutionary France, 1770-1880
by François Furet, translated by Antonia Nevill.
Blackwell, 630 pp., £40, December 1992,0 631 17029 4 Show More
by François Furet, translated by Antonia Nevill.
Blackwell, 630 pp., £40, December 1992,
“... In 1989, François Furet was frequently hailed (or criticised, depending on the context) as the ‘king’ of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. He seemed to be everywhere, on television, in the newspapers, and adorning the pages of almost every glossy magazine. Foreign reporters featured him in pieces on the celebration. Even his absence from the international scholarly meeting at the Sorbonne in July of that year merited a comment in Le Monde ... ”
