Revolutionary France is a vivid narrative history.

It is also a radical reinterpretation of the period, and testimony to the power both of ideas and of personality in movements of the past.

• Francois Furet is France's leading historian of the period
• A work of great range and originality that was a bestseller in France
• Illustrated with paintings, cartoons, maps and chronological charts.

Francois Furet is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is considered throughout the world to be the most outstanding living historian of the French Revolution.