Historian, director of studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Patrice Gueniffey is today one of our best specialists in the Revolution and the Empire.
We owe him remarkable and remarkable works, in particular a decisive book on Terror, interpreted as focal point of the revolutionary phenomenon (Fayard, 2000), a monumental biography of Napoleon Bonaparte (Gallimard, 2013), the continuation of which is eagerly awaited, and a stimulating essay on the history of France seen in the mirror of the figures of Napoleon and De Gaulle (Perrin, 2017).
Weight of ideology, dictatorship of minorities, tyranny of Paris over the province: the sovereignty of the people, Gueniffey shows, began as a shadow theater.
Today he is republishing his first book, published in 1993 at the EHESS, with a foreword which alone justifies acquiring this volume.
Recounting his youth and his history as a historian, Gueniffey mixes a tasty evocation of Paris in the 1970s, a self-portrait full of humor and an analysis of the field of ideas between that time and ours, a panorama that brings him to a conclusion, in a very few words
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