Ugh. I know. Isn't he one of the highest paid historians in the US? (Oh have you seen the letter exchange between him and Norman Hampson? Its hillarious. Hampson basically says, well...you'd get your facts right if you CARED about the subject...)
Probably. (No, I haven't. Is it online? Ordinarily, I don't hold Hampson in such high esteem either--or any historian who thinks it appropriate to refer to Saint-Just as Lucifer--but he's right here. As Vovelle says, one has to love the Revolution to understand it.)
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Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2009 00:20 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2009 05:32 (UTC)