Abstract

The French Revolutionary Epoch

The article provides information on the book "The French Revolutionary Epoch: Being a History of France From the Beginning of the First French Revolution to the End of the Second Empire," by Henri Van Laun. The book provides the history of France from the outbreak of the great Revolution to the present day. It is only to be regretted that it stops at the year 1870, and does not, therefore, contain the whole of the revolutionary epoch; and that it is so disproportionate in its parts that it is in reality a history of the First Revolution and Empire, with a brief account of the subsequent period attached. The twenty-six years from 1789 to 1815 occupy a volume and a half, so that the fifty-five years that follow have only half a volume left for them.