Lectures on the French Revolution
Lord Acton delivered these lectures as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge between 1895 and 1899, and they were published after his death, in 1910, by his pupils John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence. In twenty-two lectures he moves from the heralds of the Revolution and the influence of America through the Estates-General, the fall of the Bastille, the Declaration of Rights, the flight to Varennes and the fall of the monarchy to the Terror, the death of Robespierre and the European reaction. Acton judges men and parties with a moralist's severity and a vast command of sources, and an appendix surveys the literature of the Revolution. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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