x, 630 pp. This is an account of 110 years of turbulence and change. At the offset there were not one, but two revolutions: by intent the first was egalitarian, the second - Bonaparte's - authoritarian. Traces more than a century of turbulence and change in France, from the final years of Louis XVI, through the years of the Napoleonic Empire, to the establishment of the Third Republic in 1871.
