The French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre - Goodreads.
The French Revolution French Revolution was a horrifying event that was from 1789 to 1799. The revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic and created political chaos.
The revolution ended when Napoleon Bonaparte, a French general, took over the government. At the beginning of the revolution, events seemed minor and proceeded in a logical fashion. One of the reasons the revolution originated was the discontent among the lower and middle classes in France.
The French Revolution traces the long and short term causes of the French Revolution to the October Days and its consequences up to the dissolution of the Convention and beyond.
Seventeen fascinating essays on many aspects of the French Revolution. Soboul was chair of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne for many years until his death in 1982. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Brief biography of the author.
Georges Lefebvre's 1939 work The Coming of the French Revolution documents the collapse of the social order - and the monarchy - in France during the fateful year of 1789. Based around a Marxist understanding of class struggle, Lefebvre sees the revolution not just as a political crisis, but also as an assault on inherited privilege and the social hierarchy.
French Revolution The French revolution of 1789 is a great unchangeable event that saw the end to despotic rule of the Burbo dynasty, administration anarchy, unlimited monarchy and inefficiency of King Louis XVI. The French revolution of 1979 happened between 1787 and 1799, reaching the climax in 1789.
When Alfred Cobban inveighed against what he labeled- and caricatured as-the orthodox Marxist interpretation in The Myth of the French Revolution (1955) and The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution (1964), critical reactions from Albert Soboul, Georges Lefebvre, and others hinged on his definitions, his selective use of evidence, and his minimization of the anti-feudal, bourgeois.