After graduating in Classics from Cambridge, Ian Davidson worked for the Financial Times for many years as their Paris correspondent and chief foreign affairs columnist. He is also the author of Voltaire (Pegasus) and Voltaire in Exile (Grove). Ian lives in England.
Davidson aims to correct modern misperceptions of the French
Revolution that toppled the ancien régime in 1789 and ushered in
the First Republic. He persuasively argues that the aftershocks of
this most turbulent era continue to reverberate into the 21st
century.
An even-handed, step-by-step account of key moments of the French
Revolution. A serious work of popular history, challenging enough
to intrigue those already familiar with the revolution and
accessible enough to engage those who are not.
More than 200 years later, the world's first true working-class
revolution is little-enough understood that a new, nuts-and-bolts
history, subtly but importantly reframed, feels essential and sadly
all-too-relevant. The terror that followed feels inevitable today,
but Davidson shows that it wasn't.
What we don't know about the French Revolution could fill a book;
Davidson has done just that--in spades. An invaluable history of
the French Revolution and its repercussions through the years
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