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Referenced as one of the British writers who told the story of the French Revolution with 'fascinated horror' through the eyes of Marie Antoinette and the aristocracy: 'French people always say the British in particular love telling the story from Burke onwards, Carlisle, Dickens.'

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Referred to as 'his great history of the revolution' which influenced Dickens - this is Carlyle's history of the French Revolution

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Dominic mentions that Hitler 'read Thomas Carlyle, or he had Thomas Carlyle's book on Frederick the Great' when discussing Hitler's sense of himself as a great man.

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Discussed in the context of Hitler's admiration for great men - Tom mentions that 'Hitler in the bunker is, I think I'm right in saying has Carlyle's biography of Frederick the Great' and that Carlyle was one of Hitler's favourite authors.