French Revolutionary Lives DE

“
Revolutionary Lives
will serve scholars seeking new paths through an era that we know to have been more dynamic, more heterogeneous, and more replete with challenges from below and from abroad than once thought. …
Revolutionary Lives
underscores just how much politics matter. It is a book for the desk and the classroom, and perhaps also for the bedside table, as we reflect on how to restore the best of the revolutionary past to the present.” (Laura Mason, H-France Review, Vol. 25 (64), September, 2025)

David A. Bell is Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor at Princeton University, USA.

Colin Jones is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London, UK and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, USA.