Simon Macdonald

Revolutionaries brandishing Murat’s journal, Jean-Baptiste Lesueur, c.1793-4. Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris. Public Domain.

‘The Writer’s Lot’ by Robert Darnton review

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton discovers a literary flowering in the shadow of the guillotine.

Constitution Angleterre, showing William Pitt standing on the British crown, French response to Gillray, c.1795. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Britons Caught in the French Revolution

As Revolution broke out and turned to Terror, British citizens living in France found themselves transformed from friends of liberty to an enemy within.