Citizens : A Chronicle of

The French Revolution

 By
Simon Schama
Penguin Books Ltd
 One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon
Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the
most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French
Revolution ever produced.

'Monumental ... provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of

the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the
decades that led up to it, is thoughtful, informed and profoundly
revisionist'
Eugen Weber, The New York Times Book Review

'The most marvellous book I have read about the French Revolution'
Richard Cobb, The Times

'Dazzling - beyond praise - He has chronicled the vicissitudes of that

world with matchless understanding, wisdom, pity and truth, in the
pages of this marvellous book'
Bernard Levin, Sunday Times

'Provides an unrivalled impression of the currents and contradictions

which made up this terrible sequence of events'
Antony Beevor, Express

Simon Schama is University Professor in Art History and History at

Columbia University in New York, and one of the best-known
scholars in Britain in any field. He is the prize-winning author of
numerous books, including Dead Certainties (Unwarranted
Speculations), Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes and three
volumes of A History of Britain. He is also the writer-presenter of
historical and art-historical documentaries for BBC Television. He
lives outside New York City with his wife and children.

Penguin Books Ltd

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