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Whig History Revisited

From the February 1997 Print Edition

The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution By Dale K. Van Kley. Yale University Press, 390 pages, $35. Once upon a time, as one story goes, men and women rose up in defiance against religious superstition and oppression to split the thousand-year tyranny . . . . Continue Reading »