The French Revolution

First published in 1837, this history narrates the collapse of the French monarchy and the years that follow, from the last ease of the old court through the Estates-General, the fall of the Bastille, the flight to Varennes, the Republic, and the Terror, down to the Directory. Carlyle stages crowds, clubs, and assemblies as living scenes; principal figures include Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Mirabeau, Danton, Marat, and Robespierre. The prose is oratorical and often in the present tense. The book is a dramatic political narrative of 1789-1795, not a social statistics of the period and not a life of Napoleon.

Bound in dark brown and red cloth decorated in gold. Endleaves printed in black. Red three-volume illustrated slipcase titled in gold.