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A People's History of the French Revolution
Eric Hazan’s history of the French Revolution turns the spotlight away from kings and generals to the peasants, workers, and women who powered the upheaval. This isn’t a tidy political drama—it’s a raw, ground-level view of a messy fight for freedom and fairness. What really drove the revolution? The people in the streets, not just the speeches in salons.
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