Simon Macdonald

It may not have been the first, argues John Hardiman in The French Revolution: A Political History, but it was the first of its kind.

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton discovers a literary flowering in the shadow of the guillotine.

As Revolution broke out and turned to Terror, British citizens living in France found themselves transformed from friends of liberty to an enemy within.