Book review – French history

Book Review

What caused the French Revolution?

Robert Darnton argues that there was no clear line of causality, but the emergence of a revolutionary temper

Ruth Scurr

Napoleon’s dazzling victories invited a devastating backlash

On 20 July 1805, just three months before the battle of Trafalgar destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet, the Emperor Napoleon ordered his chief-of-staff to ‘embark everything’ for the invasion of England that he had been dreaming of for two years. ‘My intention is to land at four different points,’ he explained to Berthier, … Read more

David Crane

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