Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 Sandra Boynton where he's struck by the

where he's struck by the city's contradictions--shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class

each more bizarre than the next

able to see the world only by sifting through the memories of those who came before her

This reliable

Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 Sandra Boynton where he's struck by theWhen a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians themselves think they were doing how did they understand