![]() The rest, as the cliche goes…Ĭitizens ought to be the final book on the subject of the French Revolution. Soon these same mobs would be waylaying grain shipments, leading to disruptions and unrest in Paris. Huge mobs of farmers and laborers roamed the fields, pummeling every form of life encountered. ![]() In this case, Schama finds significant the widespread rural disregard of the laws protecting wildlife when, in the hungry spring of 1789, a plague of rabbits threatened to devour what was left of a meager harvest. "The first heavy casualties of the French Revolution were rabbits."ĭetail and interpretations of this kind fill nearly every page of Simon Schama's magnificent "chronicle" of the French Revolution. ![]() ![]() Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, by Simon Schama, New York: Knopf, 948 pages, $29.95 ![]()
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