The Great Fear of 1789 by Georges Lefebvre

The Great Fear of 1789

Georges Lefebvre

234 pages first pub 1932 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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This major work, graphically describes the panic, paranoia, and social chaos that sparked the Revolution. One of France's great historians analyzes the causes of the mass hysteria that overcame rural France during the summer of 1789, as hungry vil...

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