Revolutionary Temper

A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year

‘Robert Darnton is one of the world’s greatest historians, and this is an exceptional book: a huge social and cultural portrait of Paris in the build-up to the French Revolution’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times, Books of the Year

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global conseque...