The old regime was not old, nor did it act anachronistic, fusty or decrepit. Schama, was no bourgeois thrust against stodgy despotism or anachronistic aristocracy. His arguments, though, are embedded in narrative. But nowhere more than here does he challenge enduring prejudices with prejudices of his own. Schama, who teaches historyĪt Harvard University, has committed other large and readable tomes. 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. Once hefted, however, and well balanced on lap, knee or chest, ''Citizens'' will prove hard to put down. Those who like to do their poring lying down will scarcely rush to take up this book. Section 7, Column 3 Book Review Deskīy EUGEN WEBER Eugen Weber, a professor of history at the University of California at Los Angeles, is the author of ''Peasants Into Frenchmen.''ĬITIZENS A Chronicle of the French Revolution. March 19, 1989, Sunday, Late City Final Edition
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