Download or read book The French Revolution written by Francois Furet and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-12-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, comprising Part I of the authors classic work Revolutionary France 1770-1880, offers a vivid narrative and radical reinterpretation of the years surrounding the momentous events of 1789 and their aftermath. During this period there were not one, but two revolutions: by intent the first was egalitarian, the second- Bonapartes authoritarian. The tension between the two characterized the period and was to shape the Republic that eventually emerged from the ruins of the ancien regime.