Heh - Carlyle is...very strange...but his version of the Revolution is the one that many 19th century English writers, and later, Hollywood scriptwriters, got their ideas from! Thompson's good, and worth getting (The French Revolution, Leaders of the French Revolution, and there are his two books on Robespierre, one very long, and a much shorter version in paperback: the big one's often expensive - it's only in hardback, reprinted by the OUP quite recently, but cheaper copies (under £15) turn up on Amazon used books quite often if you keep looking). I haven't read '12 Who Ruled' yet, but it's meant to be very good, and I love Hilary Mantel - she takes a few liberties with some characters and events, but as historical fiction goes it's really well researched - she took many years researching and writing it.
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Date: 2008-08-11 11:11 am (UTC)