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The French Revolution: A History

Author: Thomas Carlyle

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August 07, 2024

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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.'

July 31, 2024

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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