The fifth and final excerpt from Revolutionary Brothers takes place in Paris in 1789, as Thomas Jefferson witnesses the civil unrest marking the beginning of the French Revolution.
‘What calm lives they had . . .
No worries about the French Revolution,
or the crushing struggles of the Napoleonic wars.’
Winston Churchill on Pride and Prejudice
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Napoleon’s rise owed everything to the French Revolution, to its ideals of liberty and equality, the meritocracy that lay at its roots, and the huge institutional changes that it wrought. Without the events of 1789, France would … Read the article