When Paris Sneezed
David Todd: The Cult of 1789, 4 January 2024
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-89
by Robert Darnton.
Allen Lane, 547 pp., £35, November,978 0 7139 9656 2 Show More
by Robert Darnton.
Allen Lane, 547 pp., £35, November,
“... British ambassador in Paris, couldn’t conceal his enthusiasm: ‘The greatest Revolution that we know anything of has been effected with, comparatively speaking – if the magnitude of the event is considered – the loss of very few lives. From this moment we may consider France as a free country.’ By the end of the ... ”