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Tom quotes from this book to describe the Marseillaise as having 'an almost millennial sense of drama' when discussing the impact of the song.

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Referenced as an example of Enlightenment culture's fascination with Rome, noting that Gibbon cast the Christian period as a dark age.

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Described as 'Peter McPhee's Great History of the French Revolution' - referenced when discussing how the Girondins had a parody of the Marseillaise that they used against the Jacobins.

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Described as 'his great book on the coming of the terror' - cited for the statistic that Cicero was quoted 10 times more frequently than Rousseau in revolutionary speeches and newspapers.

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Described as 'her book on fashion in the French Revolution' - referenced when discussing the bonnet rouge and quoting a contemporary observer about sans-culottes fashion.