The French Revolution
Philip Dawson (Editor)
The drama of ideas shared a turbulent stage with the drama of human events during the era documented by Philip Dawson in The French Revolution. Through a brilliant selection of confidential letters, police reports, political broadsides, grievance lists, public speeches, and legislative proceedings, Dawson vividly evokes an atmosphere in which the word "revolution" came to connote a way of life. These writings, most of them newly translated for this volume, show how inflammatory issues of public policy took on a tangible and compelling aspect in the long march by hundreds of women from Paris to Versailles; in the tumult of an amateur army besieging the king of Tuileries palace; in the invasion of the National Convention by a crowd bearing the head of a representative impaled on a pike. They present powerful evidence of the shortness in political distance between the Revolution of 1789 and the revolution of our own day
Print Book, English, 1967
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1967