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* The Fall of the Bastille: a Running Commentary

on BBC Radio 3

by GEORGE RUDE. Professor of History, School of Social Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, and author of The Crowd in the French Revolution,
Professor Rude uses the ' zoom lens ' of detailed research to pick out not only some faces in the crowd that took the Bastille but some of the ideas in the minds behind the faces.

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