Volume 16, Number 5 · March 25, 1971
Making the Revolution
By C.B.A. Behrens
The French Revolution
by François Furet, by Denis Richet, translated by Stephen Hardman
Macmillan, 416 pp., $9.95
A Second Identity
by Richard Cobb
Oxford, 309 pp., $8.50
The Police and the People: French Popular Protest 1789-1820
by Richard Cobb
Oxford, 414 pp., $13.00
The French Revolution was an event without parallel before 1917 and one of the most momentous events in European history. It destroyed a whole way of life and government in France and threatened the comparable regimes in other countries. The wars for which it was responsible changed the balance of power in Europe. The material and ideological upheavals which accompanied it can be compared only to those produced by the Russian Revolution, whose founding fathers, indeed, continually looked to it for guidance. It marked the beginning of an age—the age of the first industrial revolution and the liberal state—of which the generations now living are experiencing the collapse.
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