The French Revolution
Subtitle: From its Origins to 1793
Series: Routledge Classics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780415253932
First sentence: THE EUROPEAN SPIRIT of conquest, so marked in all spheres from the twelfth century onward, dominant in the sixteenth, was then checked by religious and royal reaction.