How many people here have read Schama's book Citizens? I had to read it in my room, I kept yelling at when he got facts wrong or said somthing compleaty biased. (Which was quite often) Example: "...Robespierre's inhuman love of oranges" OMG he's a space alien! or about Saint-Just, "He was capable of Draconian acts when he caught soldeirs looting, which his excessivy tidy mind frowned upon." So, if he was like the rest of us, he would think looting is just swell? lol. Schama also needed to work on his reaserch. Camille Desmoulins was not in the Theater, that was Fabre.

I think it has to do with the fact that Schama isn't really a historian on the French rev. His first book was on the Dutch. (Why did Citizens have a whole section of the book devoted to the Dutch rev?) I think he just saw that the bicentennal was coming up and wanted to make some money.