Reinterpreting the French Revolution
Subtitle: A Global-Historical Perspective
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 21, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521009997
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Historiography; Revolutions & coups; History - General History; France; World politics; History: World; Europe; Europe - France; History / Europe / General; Europe - General; Causes; History; Revolution, 1789-1799; To 1900
First sentence: On 7 September 1782, French foreign minister Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, acknowledged in a letter to his eventual successor, Armand-Marc, comte de Montmorin, that England had "in its constitution and in the establishments which it has permitted her to form, resources which are lacking to us."