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The revolutionary temper Writing & editing guides Jennifer Ackerman playfully explores ourWhen a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. In retrospect we understand the French Revolution as the outcome of such factors as a faltering economy and Enlightenment thought. But what did the Parisians themselves think they were doing how did they understand their world? In this dazzling history, Robert Darnton draws on decades of study to conjure a past as vivid