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“... a situation in which British economic and social history is a battlefield of controversies. As Crouzet remarks: ‘unlike in France, the conclusions of the most eminent writers do not become dogmas and are soon challenged.’ But it may be that even the British debate, for all its vigour and its taste for ‘criticism, not to say ...”

“... Despite his blockade, Britain refused either to succumb or go broke (though Tulard follows François Crouzet in thinking that this was a close-run thing). Napoleon was diverted into Spain and Russia; the booty stopped and the death-rate escalated: 380,000 French soldiers failed to return from Moscow. Such mortality enforced increasingly ruthless ...”

“... lived on the first floor, in a low-ceilinged room with the plainest of furnishings.The historian François Furet tells us: ‘The revolution speaks through him its most tragic and purest discourse.’ It does not matter where he lived or what he was like, or that he walked through this gate the day before his horrible death. His temperament is of no ...”