One of the greatest historians of French history reflects on the ways that the French Revolution continues to resonate in France and throughout the world.

• The "Longue Durée"


• From the Old Regime to the Revolution


• The Revolution


• Napoleon Bonaparte


• The Nineteenth Century


• Vichy


• Parallels: Past and Present

David A. Bell is Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions and Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It.