This title begins with an introduction to the intellectual background to the French Revolution and looks at the main events and movements, including the role of the bourgeoisie and the working classes, the Girondins and the Jacobins, the attack on the Church and the fall of the Monarchy, Robespierre, the Terror and the Directory. In addition, separate chapters considers the role of women in the French Revolution, its social achievements and the historiography of the subject.