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The French revolution (Volume I) The bastille

The French revolution (Volume I) The bastille

Carlyle, Thomas

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral World HistoryUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 9353800870
ISBN13: 9789353800871
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
One prison, one city, a continent shifting. Paris holds its breath, 1789. In Volume I of Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution, the road to the storming of the Bastille is traced with the urgency of eyewitness drama and the sweep of classic narrative history. Carlyle's famed Victorian historiography prose turns eighteenth century France into a living argument about power: the French Revolution origins in hunger, finance, and lost authority; the collapse of absolute monarchy as ideas and crowds accelerate beyond control. Read it for the atmosphere of Paris in 1789, for the moral intensity that made this work a landmark in age of revolution history, and for the way it still speaks to debates first sharpened in Edmund Burke revolution essays. Fiercely opinionated yet attentive to detail, it helped define how English readers imagined revolution, and it remains a touchstone for collectors seeking a monumental narrative to stand beside modern scholarship on your own shelves. As a public domain history book presented as a complete unabridged edition, it rewards the casual reader who wants momentum and colour. For history students, it offers a bracing counterpoint to textbooks: not a timeline, but a narrative that shows how decisions, rumours, and symbols can fracture a state. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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