This event was defined as "asking for the impossible" in a book that considers violence to be the essence of this event.
This event was defined as "asking for the impossible" in a book that considers violence to be the essence of this event. That book about this event describes episodes like the parading around of Major Whyte as fueled by "Gothic fantasies." François Furet spent most of his career attacking Georges Lefebvre's Marxist interpretation of this event. A book about this event describes the latter portions of this event as a "politics of turpitude," and has been attacked as a one-sided denunciation of it. This event is the subject of Jules (*) Michelet's most famous book. Simon Schama noted that "No state with imperial pretensions...has...ever subordinated...military interests to the considerations of a balanced budget" while emphasizing the reforms of ministers like Turgot and Maupeou in the years before this event. According to Eric Hobsbawm, this event was "dual" with Britain's Industrial Revolution. For 10 points, name this event chronicled in Schama's Citizens, which begins Hobsbawm's "long nineteenth century," and which was condemned by Edmund Burke in his Reflections.
This event was defined as "asking for the impossible" in a book that considers violence to be the essence of this event.
the French Revolution [or Révolution française] 