Fun read on the tyranny of “enlightenment”
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Aren't you engaging in the Murray Gellman Amnesia effect here? Why would you trust someone who is a total lunatic to tell you the truth about some other subject?
Read a work of serious history if you want to know about the French Revolution. Even the historians who regard the French Revolution as a positive, don't sugarcoat its wrongs.
Well I'd say he wasn't a total lunatic back when he did this specific series, but setting that aside, he doesn't interject his own opinions.
It's a retelling of events. And I know enough about the French revolution from other sources to know he played it about as straight as possible.