PositiveThe Telegraph (UK)\"In many ways, The Revolutionary Temper is a richly researched, ambitious and fascinating history ... This is an enticing premise, and in places, its aims are achieved. The Revolutionary Temper immerses us in gossip and popular songs about the extravagance and immorality of the ancien régime ... draws on a rich array of sources – official edicts, police reports, pamphlets, journals, letters, books – but often favours paraphrase with extensive footnotes over direct quotation. In places, there are surprisingly few other voices to be heard. The sources quoted most extensively are accounts by a small number of relatively prosperous people about what they believe \'all Paris\' thinks ... I sometimes had the feeling of being asked to take his word for it. Even so, Darnton’s book ends on a striking note, drawing parallels with how more recent \'historical\' events...have brought people together, however temporarily.\
