French Revolution

<p>Bosher situates the revolutionary struggle not in an atmosphere of sharp class alignment but instead with socially mixed and transient groupings. He goes deeply into the pre-Revolutionary period examining the stresses in the social and political order of the <em>ancien regime</em> as well as the ideas of the wealthy that circulated in the salons and permeated the journals and leaflets read by the populace.</p><p>Central to the account is Professor Bosher's argument novel and fully documented that behind the tumult was a generation of revolutionaries whose revolution was not premeditated and a series of events that were anything but inevitable even once the powder keg was ignited.</p>