No history of the French Revolution is more widely read than Carlyle's, and no part of that history is better known than his account of the flight to Varennes. Yet almost every detail of his ...

Ruth Scurr (ed.) Carlyle’s The French Revolution (London and New York: Continuum, 2010) and Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (London: Vintage, 2006) The boy kneels ...

Good morning. What does Thomas Carlyle’s account of the French Revolution teach us today? Among other things, that “Rousseau is the leading spirit of the cultural Left, in our time as in his ...

So wrote Thomas Carlyle to his wife, Jane, before beginning the last volume of his history of the French Revolution. The work took Carlyle three years to write, and its publication in 1837 made ...

Reading Barton Swaim’s review of Oxford’s three-volume edition of Thomas Carlyle’s “The French Revolution” (Books, Jan. 22) sent me back to look at some of my own old copies of Carlyle ...

Perhaps the wisest single volume of history ever published in the English language was Thomas Carlyle’s massive, and massively influential, The French Revolution: A History (1837), just now ...