'The French Revolution' is always a big subject and many major historians and writers have attempted to shed new light on what happened in France on the decade from 1789 to 1799. Gaxotte stands out for his This long out of print book will annoy Marxists and delight conservatives for its critical approach to the revolt that turned into a revolution.contrarian approach that offers a well-reasoned defense of the French monarchy, much in the style of the English historian Edmund Burke. His history of the French Revolution is still widely read in France with many paperback reprinted editions. A description of the main characters and events of the revolution accompanies a decidedly critical interpretation much to the embarrassment of the many glorifiers of those bloody times.
