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I'm writing this in the wake of recent terrorist attacks in Paris and I hesitate to say this because of the timing, but Paris is no stranger to the savage violence of the mob on people perceived as enemies. It's also the place to go for stomach-churning descriptions of mob violence. He lives outside New York City with his wife and children.Schama emphasizes the great personalities involved in the French Revolution: this is the place to go for full portraits of the vacillating but sometimes courageous Louis XVI for the puritanical Robespierre the devilish Marat, with his repulsive skin disease and calculating opportunists like Talleyrand.

He is also the writer-presenter of historical and art-historical documentaries for BBC Television. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes and three volumes of A History of Britain. Simon Schama is University Professor in Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, and one of the best-known scholars in Britain in any field. 'Provides an unrivalled impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events' 'Dazzling - beyond praise - He has chronicled the vicissitudes of that world with matchless understanding, wisdom, pity and truth, in the pages of this marvellous book'

'The most marvellous book I have read about the French Revolution' provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to it, is thoughtful, informed and profoundly revisionist'Įugen Weber, The New York Times Book Review

One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced.