num_pages: 352
description: Alternate cover edition can be found here. Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the coup d'etat that brought Napoleon to power ten years later. In the process he explains the drama and complexities of this epoch-making era in the compelling and accessible manner he has made his trademark. Writing in The Times, Richard Holmes described the book as 'A spectacular replay of epic action ...' while The Good Book Guide called it, 'Unquestionably the best popular history of the French Revolution'.
language: English
title: The French Revolution
titlecomplete: The French Revolution
genres: French Revolution, France, Historical, History, 18th Century, Research, European History, War, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 1806
publisher: Penguin