📚 The French Revolution

The old order torn down in a decade of hope and terror — the ideas, the guillotine, and the rise of Napoleon out of the wreckage.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject french revolution in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Vom Kriege	Carl von Clausewitz	1835	194
	La Grande Révolution	Peter Kropotkin	1893	65
	La colline inspirée	Maurice Barrès	1912	13
	The French Revolution	J. M. Thompson	1933	10
	Joseph Fouche	Stefan Zweig	1929	8
	The origin & stability of the French Revolution	Mark Wilks	1791	6
	Country Doctor in the French Revolution	Robert Weston	2019	6
	The Dauphin (Louis XVII)	G. Lenotre	1921	5
	Paris in the Terror	Stanley Loomis	1970	5
	La séparation de l'Église et de l'État en 1794	Edmé Champion	1903	3
	Behind the scenes in the terror	Fleischmann, Hector	1914	3
	Benjamin Constant et la Révolution française, 1789-1799	Dominique Verrey	1989	3
	Ode sur les derniers attentats du gouvernement romain	Pierre Jean-Baptiste Chaussard	1797	2
	Mémoires et souvenirs du baron Hyde de Neuville ...	Hyde de Neuville, Jean Guillaume baron	1888	2
	Mémoires et souvenirs du baron Hyde de Neuville ..	Hyde de Neuville, Jean Guillaume baron	1888	2
	Camille Desmoulins	Violet Methley	1914	2
	Die Französische Revolution	Ernst Schulin	1988	2
	The Revolution Against Christendom	Warren H. Carroll	2006	2
	Die Große Französische Revolution 1789–1793	Peter Kropotkin	2012	2
	Apologie de la religion et de la monarchie françoise réunies	Charles François de Lubersac de Livron	1802	1
	The royal family in the Temple prison (journal of the imprisonment)	Cléry M.	1909	1
	Le recrutement de l'armée révolutionnaire dans le Puy-de-Dôme (1791, an VIII)	Bernard Mouillard	1926	1
	Joseph Le Bon, 1765-1795	Louis Jacob	1932	1
	Joseph Le Bon, 1765-1795	Louis Jacob	1932	1
	Répertoire de l'histoire de la Révolution française	Bibliothèque Nationale. Dept. des Imprimés.	1941	1
	A History of Private Life IV.	Arthur Goldhammer	1990	1
	Burke and the French Revolution: Bicentennial Essays	Steven Blakemore	1992	1
	L' affaire de la mairie de Paris en 1789	Jacques De Cock	2000	1
	Les Cordeliers dans la Révolution française	Jacques De Cock	2002	1
	Lettre sur la terreur	Louis Blanc	2010	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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