pickVery interesting book, easier to read than I expected, and short for a history text. It‘s well worth a read to understand our misconceptions about how the French Revolution came about, and what was really behind it. Interesting times call for interesting history reads, I say. #historyread
Its a four-day weekend in Latin America for Carnaval 🎉 . Here‘s my reading stash 📚: Call me by your name, The old regime, To Kill a mockingbird and Catch-22. With 4 kids 🧒 in tow at the beach 🏖, let‘s see how much I can accomplish 💪🏽.
“No great historical event is better calculated than the French Revolution to teach political writers and statesmen to be cautious in their speculations; for never was any such event, stemming from factors so far back in the past, so inevitable yet so completely unforeseen.” #firstlines #historyread
The Old Regime and the Revolution | 
