Georges Lefebvre was one of the most highly-regarded historians of
the 20th century - and a key reason for the high reputation he
enjoys can be found in The Coming of the French Revolution.
Lefebvre's key contribution to the debate over what remains
arguably one of history's most contentious and significant events
in history was to deploy the critical thinking skill of evaluation
to reveal weaknesses in existing arguments about the causes of the
Revolution, and analytical skills to expose hidden assumptions in
them. Rather than seeing events as driven by the aristocracy and
the bourgeoisie - which then lost power to the urban workers - as
was usual at the time, Lefebvre deployed years of research in
regional archives to argue that the Revolution had had a fourth
pillar: the peasantry. Painting the upheaval as complex and
multi-layered - while still privileging a predominantly economic
interpretation - Lefebvre provides a compelling new narrative to
explain why the French monarchy collapsed so suddenly in 1789: one
that stressed the significance of a 'popular revolution' in the
rural countryside.
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