Patrice Gueniffey turns increasingly to the general public as a great historian wearing the double specialist cap: -The French Revolution (with his thesis "The French Revolution and elections, 1790-1792" under the direction of François Furet, followed by the excellent "The Politics of Terror: An Essay on revolutionary violence, 1789-1794" published in Tel Collection.) -From French Consulate and the Empire (With "The Eighteenth Brumaire: the epilogue of the French Revolution, 9-10 November 1799" At Gallimard in the collection "Thirty days that have made France", followed by the very recent biography of "Bonaparte" probably waiting for his second volume "Napoleon.") -S'ajoutant On behalf of François Furet, note that Patrice Gueniffey made an "Introduction-Test" in the new edition of "Napoleon" by Jacques Bainville (so a good historiographical knowledge.)
All this to explain that this "Stories of the Revolution and the Empire" (that is to say from 1789 to 1815) is a solid book of 750 pages, which is both a sum between work and synthesis accuracy throughout the long period Treaty (Patrice Gueniffey following a Jean Tulard product effective work and whose knowledge is balanced between the Revolution, the Consulate and the Empire.)
Nb: In the excellent collection "Tempus", I recommend John Paul Bertauds, "The French Revolution" followed by Jacques-Olivier Boudon, "History of the Consulate and the Empire"; two works to have next to the one we comment.
