The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

＂This captivating history of the decades leading up to the French Revolution...immerse[s] readers in what agitated Parisians read, wore, ate and sang on the way to toppling the monarchy of Louis XVI.＂ --New York Times Book Review

A groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide acclaim.