Carlyle, Thomas,  1795-1881 <br/><br/>
The French Revolution: A History 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_French_Revolution:_A_History  Release date is 2006-02-15 
<br/><br/>Sue Asscher and David Widger  Sue Asscher and David Widger 
<br/><br/> "The French Revolution: A History" by Thomas Carlyle is a three-volume work published in 1837. This dramatic chronicle traces the French Revolution from 1789 through the Reign of Terror to 1795. Written in an unprecedented style that places readers directly into revolutionary Paris, Carlyle employs present-tense narration and poetic prose to transform historical events into visceral experience. The work broke from traditional historiography, treating history as epic poetry rather than detached analysis, and profoundly influenced figures from Dickens to Wilde. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793 
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