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Publisher description for Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution / Simon Schama.

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Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: France History Revolution, 1789-1799