# The French Revolution: A History

By Thomas Carlyle.

"The French Revolution: A History" by Thomas Carlyle is a three-volume work published in 1837. This dramatic chronicle traces the French Revolution from 1789 through the Reign of Terror to 1795. Written in an unprecedented style that places readers directly into revolutionary Paris, Carlyle employs present-tense narration and poetic prose to transform historical events into visceral experience. The work broke from traditional historiography, treating history as epic poetry rather than detached analysis, and profoundly influenced figures from Dickens to Wilde. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793

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## Audiobooks of it

- [French Revolution: A History. Volume 2: The Constitution (Version 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/16991) by Thomas Carlyle (12 h 6 min, English)
- [French Revolution Volume 2 The Constitution](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/14765) by Thomas Carlyle (13 h 25 min, English)
- [French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/17089) by Thomas Carlyle (12 h 45 min, English)
- [French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/7704) by Thomas Carlyle (11 h 12 min, English)
- [French Revolution: A History. Volume 1: The Bastille (Version 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/16866) by Thomas Carlyle (11 h 9 min, English)

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