Volume 37, Number 2 · February 15, 1990

The Decline and Fall of the French Revolution

By Conor Cruise O'Brien
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution
edited by François Furet, by Mona Ozouf, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Harvard University Press (Belknap Press), 1064 pp., $85.00

It was a splendid idea to compile a critical dictionary of the French Revolution, and the idea has been splendidly executed. Intellectually, the publication of this dictionary was the most significant event of the bicentenary year. In their preface, François Furet and Mona Ozouf define the nature of their enterprise:



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