July 2021 Issue John Adamson Night of the Guillotine The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris By Colin Jones
September 2019 Issue Munro Price She Wasn’t Just in It for the Dresses Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen By John Hardman LR
June 2019 Issue Philipp Blom Bones of Contention Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely By Andrew S Curran LR
March 1994 Issue Sebastian Faulks First Scandal Sheets Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Celebres of Prerevolutionary France By Sarah Maza
August 2018 Issue Lucy Moore Loom & Bust The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis By Joan DeJean LR
September 1997 Issue Douglas Johnson Leading Rake or Early Socialist? The Man Who Would be King: The Life of Philippe d’Orléans, Regent of France By Christine Pevitt LR
March 1996 Issue Julian Barnes Did Light Novels Finish the French Monarchy? The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France By Robert Darnton
April 1987 Issue Hilary Mantel The Last Post Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution By Olivier Blanc LR
June 2015 Issue Gavin Jacobson Talking Shop The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris By Antoine Lilti (Translated by Lydia G Cochrane) LR
April 2004 Issue Alan Palmer His Empire For Some Horses 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow By Adam Zamoyski The Age of Napoleon By Alistair Home LR
March 2008 Issue Paul Johnson Ideas in Action The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments By Gertrude Himmelfarb LR
June 2007 Issue Andrew Roberts As Emperor Apparent Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769–1799 By Philip Dwyer LR
September 2006 Issue Allan Massie Dressed To Be Killed Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France By Lucy Moore LR
June 2005 Issue Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson Heads Will Roll The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution By David Andress LR
March 2014 Issue Tim Blanning What Now, Little Man? Napoleon: Volume 1 – Soldier of Destiny, 1769–1805 By Michael Broers LR
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