title: The French Revolution: 1770-1814
author:  Francois Furet 
description: Reviews of the parent volume <i>Revolutionary France 1770-1880:</i>
zlib_text: History
  of the
  French  
  Revolution
  from
  1789 to 1814
  Francois-Auguste Mignet
  
  History of tHe frencH 
  revolution from  
  1789 to 1814
  
  Copyright © 2006 BiblioBazaar
  All rights reserved
  ISBN: 1-4264-3581-9
  
  francois-auguste mignet
  History of tHe frencH 
  revolution from  
  1789 to 1814
   
  
  History of tHe frencH 
  revolution from  
  1789 to 1814
  
  INTRODUCTION
  Of the great incidents of History, none has attracted more 
  attention or proved more difficult of interpretation than the French 
  Revolution. The ultimate significance of other striking events and 
  their place in the development of mankind can be readily estimated. 
  It is clear enough that the barbarian invasions marked the death 
  of the classical world, already mortally wounded by the rise of 
  Christianity. It is clear enough that the Renaissance emancipated the 
  human intellect from the trammels of a bastard mediaevalism, that 
  the Reformation consolidated the victory of the “new learning” by 
  including theology among the subjects of hum