A Place of Greater Safety
A Place of Greater Safety

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-11-14

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 0312426399

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Set during the French Revolution, this "riveting historical novel" ("The New Yorker") is the story of three young provincials who together helped destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves.

Fatal Purity
Fatal Purity

Author: Ruth Scurr

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-04-17

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780805082616

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Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from lawyer to revolutionary leader. This is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.

Revolutionary Ideas
Revolutionary Ideas

Author: Jonathan Israel

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-03-23

Total Pages: 883

ISBN-13: 1400849993

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How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution’s intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution. In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas—not their fulfillment.