Analysis of the political, economic, social and demographic aspects of the storming of the Bastille in Paris.

This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. It examines in particular the st

The storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and the beginning of the French Revolution.

From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principle