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A review by nina_rosalinde
The Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert
4.0
Easy to read, but sometimes a bit nauseating, as Hibbert does not tiptoe around the extreme violence of the time. The book is mostly a good overview of what happened without really speculating about why everything happened.
Thankfully, you don't have to remember every person that gets mentioned to follow the general storyline, because so many people were involved and tried to take charge in one part of the revolution or another, with some of them suddenly disappearing from the narrative, that it's pretty much impossible to commit all of them to memory in one go.
The book is very much meant as a relatively short introduction to them, not a deep dive into every individual and every detail of the revolution.
Thankfully, you don't have to remember every person that gets mentioned to follow the general storyline, because so many people were involved and tried to take charge in one part of the revolution or another, with some of them suddenly disappearing from the narrative, that it's pretty much impossible to commit all of them to memory in one go.
The book is very much meant as a relatively short introduction to them, not a deep dive into every individual and every detail of the revolution.