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French Revolution
Book 1 in the French Revolution series.
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The French Revolution traces the collapse of Bourbon monarchy and the rapid transformation of French politics after 1789. It explains the fiscal crisis, social inequality and political expectations that produced the Estates-General, the fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
The account follows constitutional monarchy, republic, war, the execution of Louis XVI, the Terror and the Thermidorian reaction. It shows how disputes over sovereignty, religion, property and popular mobilisation remade France while generating violence and instability that prepared the way for Napoleon.
