Volume 35, Number 21 & 22 · January 19, 1989
What Was Revolutionary about the French Revolution?
By Robert Darnton
What was so revolutionary about the French Revolution? The question might seem impertinent at a time like this, when all the world is congratulating France on the two hundredth anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, the destruction of feudalism, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. But the bicentennial fuss has little to do with what actually happened two centuries ago.
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