Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural, and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced.

Author: Simon Schama
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/17/1990
Pages: 976
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN13: 9780679726104
ISBN10: 0679726101
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | France
- History | Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions
- History | Modern | 18th Century

About the Author
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the prize-winning author of seventeen books, including The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, the History of Britain trilogy and The Story of the Jews. He is a contributing editor of the Financial Times and his award-winning television work as writer and presenter for the BBC includes the fifteen-part A History of Britain and the eight-part, Emmy-winning Power of Art.