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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Simon Schama · 1990 · 948 pages
In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural, and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced.
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Simon Sebag-Montefiore
“On this bleak day in darkest english countryside, i want to celebrate 8 books that made me love history (& even aspire to write it). Antonia Fraser’s Cromwell. @simon_schama Citizens. Duff Cooper’s Talleyrand 1/2”↗
Mike Carlton
“Rain, rain, rain. Bored, bored, bored. Picked a book at random from my shelves to re-read. Turned out to be Citizens, an account of the French Revolution by @simon_schama . Still as absorbing as it was 20 years ago. Aux armes !”↗
