History of the French Revolution

Michelet, Jules; Cocks, Charles

ISBN 10: 0999428314 / ISBN 13: 9780999428313

Published by Antipodes Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of the French Revolution
• Publisher: Antipodes Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0999428314
• ISBN 13: 9780999428313
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

The Revolution, according to Jules Michelet (1798–1874), is the “tardy advent of Eternal Justice” against the tyranny of the monarchy. It is personified by the People, whose joy and misery Michelet evokes in every page of this “romantic history” of unprecedented social upheaval.

Charles Cocks’ translation of 1864 includes the first four Books of Michelet’s Histoire de la Revolution Française, covering events from the earliest indications of the Revolution to the King’s flight in 1791.

“...the cornerstone of all revolutionary historiography and a literary monument.”
– François Furet

About the Author

Jules Michelet was a French historian. In his 1855 work, Histoire de France (History of France), he was the first historian to use and define the word Renaissance ('Re-birth' in French), as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a drastic break from the Middle Ages (which he loathed), creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world. His aphoristic style emphasized his anti-clerical republicanism.