Volume 10, Number 12 · June 20, 1968
The Price Of Revolution
By C.B.A. Behrens
The Two French Revolutions, 1789-1796
by Guglielmo Ferrero, Translated from the French by Samuel J. Hurwitz, with a Foreword by Crane Brinton
Basic Books, 236 pp., $5.95
Louis XIV
by John B. Wolf
Norton, 678 pp., $12.50
Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian and journalist, born in 1871, who made his name by a five-volume work on the greatness and decline of Rome, in 1907. In the 1930s he was forced into exile in Switzerland, where he began to interest himself in the history of the French Revolution. In 1942 he published a trilogy on Europe after the Terror, and in the same year he delivered a course of lectures in Geneva intending to use them as an introduction to this work. He died, however, before he could turn the lectures into a book. The Two French Revolutions was written by his pupil, Luc Monnier, from his very full notes. First published in French in 1951, it has now been translated into English (not always happily), with a Foreword by Professor Crane Brinton.
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