Ruth Scurr

When the money ran out, so did the idealism in post-Revolutionary France

A review of The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett and Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution by Rebecca L. Spang suggests that fear rather than optimism was the driving force of the French revolution

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  • The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

    Timothy Tackett

    Belknap/Harvard, pp. 463

  • Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution

    Rebecca L. Spang

    Harvard, pp. 350

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