LIBERTY OR DEATH: The French Revolution
by Peter McPhee
Yale University Press, Yale Hardcover: 488 pagesISBN: 9780300189933 Price: AUD$57.95
Reviewed by Bill James
General Charles de Gaulle once asked: “How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?”
France has always been a nation of striking regional differences, and this was no less true during the revolutiona…