This volume, comprising Part I of the author's classic work
"Revolutionary France 1770-1880, "offers a vivid narrative and
radical reinterpretation of the years surrounding the momentous
events of 1789 and their aftermath. During this period there were
not one, but two revolutions: by intent the first was egalitarian,
the second - Bonaparte's authoritarian. The tension between the two
characterized the period and was to shape the Republic that
eventually emerged from the ruins of the "ancien regime."
The narrative begins in the last years of Louis XVI. Professor
Furet provides a graphic account of the years leading up to the
Revolution and of the Revolution itself. The sovereignty of the
people was as absolute as the monarchy it replaced, and the Terror
its tragic and inevitable consequence. In 1799, after a
well-planned and executed military coup, Bonaparte seized power and
within five years had made himself France's first emperor. Napoleon
conquered not only half Europe but the aspirations of the
Revolution, and put in place the laws and institutions by which
France is still largely governed. The volume ends with Napoleon's
defeat, and the start of a new chain of events that was to lead to
the establishment of the Third Republic in 1871.
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