The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (PDF)

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⭐I don’t consider myself equal to the task of writing a review of Carlyle’s works simply because I consider him to be one of the greatest writers of his Age; second perhaps only to Edmund Burke. I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge that plumbing these depths is a challenge. However I will scribble a few notes here for anyone wishing to brave these waters and start off by admitting that for the layman and others such as myself, finishing the book from cover to cover can be a daunting task. However, if you set your sails aright, despite the obstacles, it can prove a most rewarding venture. Strenuous.. maybe- Arduous.. a little.. But well worth the effort. To be sure, the reader will encounter a vast array of names and places that will sound foreign to his ear; players and actors who have long since left the world stage. Despite time and history having buried many of these names beneath her proud waves these waters are still navigableAlex de Tocqueville wrote that: “The American Revolution was caused by a mature and thoughtful taste for freedom. No disorderly passions drove it. On the contrary, it proceeded hand in hand with a love of order and legality”. Not so the French Revolution. It was sudden, violent and unforgiving. Tens of thousands of people lost their lives. And the way they were murdered (there is no other name for it) was particularly cruel, brutal and vicious. The bodies of victims were often mutilated and dismembered; heads stuck on the end of pikes and paraded through towns and cities. Hundreds of priests were tied up and put on boats; the boats then deliberately and purposely sunk; all drowned- there were no survivors (Pg. 691). The Tannery in Meudon where the flaying, butchering and skinning of human corpses (both men and woman) took place (Pg. 712) for making breeches, pants, and clothing. Gruesome and horrifically evil, but true. Apparently, the Nazis weren’t first to find new uses for human skin. And (if you have the stomach for it) you can do an internet search on Princess de Lamballe. The actual details of her murder were so unspeakable that Carlyle refused to commit them to writing.Like Arjuna who looked with unshielded eyes into the mouth of Krishna before the battle of Kurukshetra and saw worlds and universes unfold before him; so too Carlyle looks into the maw of the French Revolution. Carlyle takes up the challenge by asking what exactly the French Revolution was all about? What did it all mean? What did it signify? How is it to be interpreted? Do we even have (he asks) the tools to dare attempt an interpretation? In the end, Carlyle neither accuses or excuses the French Revolution; he attempts to write about an event and phenomena that even today historians are still debating.When we look back over all the carnage and the tragic divulsions.. When the dead are all buried and time has bound and healed at least some of the injustices which took place.. When we add it all up and ask ourselves almost 200 years later what it all meant we are still no closer to a final answer than when Thomas Carlyle first took pen in hand, sat down, and began to write..the story of..The French Revolution..

⭐This is indeed a very strange work of history; Carlyle narrates the events of the Revolution as those of a Victorian novel. It is difficult to convey a true sense of the hyper-dramatic prose that results, so it might be better to include some excerpts from the text:The surrender of the Bastille:”For four hours now has the World-Bedlam roared: call it theWorld-Chimaera, blowing fire! The poor Invalides have sunk under theirbattlements, or rise only with reversed muskets: they have made a whiteflag of napkins; go beating the chamade, or seeming to beat, for onecan hear nothing. The very Swiss at the Portcullis look weary of firing;disheartened in the fire-deluge: a porthole at the drawbridge is opened,as by one that would speak. See Huissier Maillard, the shifty man! Onhis plank, swinging over the abyss of that stone-Ditch; plank restingon parapet, balanced by weight of Patriots,–he hovers perilous: sucha Dove towards such an Ark! Deftly, thou shifty Usher: one man alreadyfell; and lies smashed, far down there, against the masonry! UsherMaillard falls not: deftly, unerring he walks, with outspread palm. TheSwiss holds a paper through his porthole; the shifty Usher snatchesit, and returns. Terms of surrender: Pardon, immunity to all! Are theyaccepted?–“Foi d’officier, On the word of an officer,” answers half-payHulin,–or half-pay Elie, for men do not agree on it, “they are!” Sinksthe drawbridge,–Usher Maillard bolting it when down; rushes-in theliving deluge: the Bastille is fallen! Victoire! La Bastille est prise!”The execution of Robespierre:”At four in the afternoon, never before were the streets of Paris seen socrowded. From the Palais de Justice to the Place de la Revolution, forthither again go the Tumbrils this time, it is one dense stirring mass;all windows crammed; the very roofs and ridge-tiles budding forth humanCuriosity, in strange gladness. The Death-tumbrils, with their motleyBatch of Outlaws, some Twenty-three or so, from Maximilien toMayor Fleuriot and Simon the Cordwainer, roll on. All eyes are onRobespierre’s Tumbril, where he, his jaw bound in dirty linen, withhis half-dead Brother, and half-dead Henriot, lie shattered; their’seventeen hours’ of agony about to end. The Gendarmes point theirswords at him, to shew the people which is he. A woman springs onthe Tumbril; clutching the side of it with one hand; waving the otherSibyl-like; and exclaims: “The death of thee gladdens my very heart,m’enivre de joie;” Robespierre opened his eyes; “Scelerat, go down toHell, with the curses of all wives and mothers!”–At the foot of thescaffold, they stretched him on the ground till his turn came. Liftedaloft, his eyes again opened; caught the bloody axe. Samson wrenchedthe coat off him; wrenched the dirty linen from his jaw: the jaw fellpowerless, there burst from him a cry;–hideous to hear and see. Samson,thou canst not be too quick!”The book succeeds in portraying such of the more dramatic events of the Revolution with a striking immediacy that makes the book worthwhile. At other points, however, Carlyle frustrates by including lengthy passages of melodramatic commentary.

⭐I have always enjoyed history and when I see a bargain like this I make a point of obtaining same. A good read.

⭐Bought for my dads birthday, he is very happy with it!

⭐Mad, mad mad, but genuis mad. And it is written like a screenplay!!

⭐Very gooood Book!!

⭐Not what I had expected.

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