The Revolutionary TemperA brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian. Events do not come naked into the world. They come clothed in attitudes, assumptions, values, memories of the past, anticipations of the future, hopes and fears and many other emotions. To understand events, it is necessary to describe the perceptions that accompany them, for the two are inseparable. When a Parisian crowd stormed