The History of the French Revolution

Published in the 1820s, and translated into English in 1838, Thiers' work remains a significant account of the French Revolution.

Adolphe Thiers (Author), Frederick Shoberl (Edited and translated by)

9781108035309, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 November 2011

488 pages, 6 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.62 kg

Marie-Louis-Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877) was a prominent figure in a turbulent period in French history. Described by Karl Marx as a 'monstrous gnome' and condemned by the left for suppressing the Paris Commune of 1871, he enjoyed a controversial political career, but it is for his epic Histoire de la Révolution Française that he is chiefly remembered today. It was first published in French in ten volumes between 1823 and 1827, and in 1838 Frederic Shoberl's English translation made it a staple of British bookshelves. Consolidated into five volumes and illustrated with an array of engravings, this edition presents readers with a history of events spanning more than a decade of revolution and war, and remains one of the most comprehensive accounts of the French Revolution. Volume 5 concludes the narrative with accounts of military campaigns abroad, political in-fighting at home, and Napoleon's coup d'état of November 1799.

The Directory: Situation of the government in the winter of the year V (1797)
State of Europe in 1797 (year V)
Embarrassing situation of England
Consequences of the 18th of Fructidor
General Bonaparte in Paris
Expedition to Egypt
Effect of the expedition to Egypt in Europe
Resumption of hostilities
Effect of our first reverses
Continuation of the operations of Bonaparte in Egypt
Return of Bonaparte
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]