Paris in the Revolution

This anthology gathers eyewitness prose about Paris during the French Revolution, arranged as a sequence of episodes from the Estates-General through the fall of the Bastille, the October Days, the flight to Varennes, the end of the monarchy, the September Massacres, the king's death, the Terror, and the fall of Robespierre. The extracts come from letters, memoirs, and contemporary reports by participants and onlookers rather than from a single historian. Typical subjects are crowds, prisons, political clubs, and the streets under successive regimes. There is no continuous novelistic plot. The book is a documentary reader of revolutionary Paris.

Quarter-bound in black buckram with white image printed blue paper covers. Glassine dust-jacket, no slipcase. The Presentation Volume for 1967.