François Furet (1927–1997)

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1. François Furet

   Author of Revolutionary France 1770-1880 (History of France), The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century, Interpreting the French Revolution

2. Raymond Aron

   Author of The Opium of the Intellectuals, Mémoires, The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness of the Twentieth Century

3. Lynn Hunt

   Author of Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, The Family Romance of the French Revolution (Centennial Book)

4. Jean-François Revel

   Author of Anti-Americanism, Without Marx or Jesus; the new American Revolution has begun, La Grande Parade: Essai sur la survie de l'utopie socialiste

5. Isaiah Berlin

   Author of The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Age of Enlightenment: The 18th Century Philosophers, The Roots of Romanticism

6. Keith Michael Baker

   Author of The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Inventing the French Revolution `: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Ideas in Context)

7. Robert Darnton

   Author of The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History, The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, The Literary Underground of the Old Regime

8. William Doyle

   Author of The Oxford History of the French Revolution, Origins of the French Revolution, Old Regime France: 1648-1788 (The Short Oxford History of France)

9. Georges Lefebvre

   Author of The Coming of the French Revolution, Great Fear of 1789

10. Marc Bloch

    Author of The Historian's Craft, Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940, Feudal society

11. Leo Strauss

    Author of Natural Right and History, On Tyranny

12. Alexis de Tocqueville

    Author of The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Democracy in America, Volume 2 (Vintage Classics)

13. Pierre Goubert

    Author of Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen, Ancien Regime French Society 1600-1750 (Harper Torchbooks)

14. Peter Gay

    Author of The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom, Freud, Jews and Other Germans: Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture

15. Albert Soboul

    Author of The Sans-Culottes, Understanding the French Revolution

16. Dena Goodman

    Author of The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment

17. Colin Jones

    Author of The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon, 1715-99

18. Natalie Zemon Davis

    Author of Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis

19. Frederic Chapin Lane

    Author of Venice, A Maritime Republic

20. Eugen Weber

    Author of Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914