This is a partial list of historians of the French Revolution.

Historians of the Revolution

• F.A. Aulard - Founded the Société de l’Histoire de la Révolution and the bimonthly review Révolution française. Numerous works develop his republican, bourgeois, and anticlerical view of the revolution.
• Louis Blanc - Blanc's 13-volume Histoire de la Révolution française (1847–1862) displays utopian socialist views, and sympathizes with Jacobinism.
• Edmund Burke - Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) [1] is mainly a polemical work rather than a history, but still worth reading for an English conservative's look at what he saw as excesses of the Revolution before the period of the Terror.
• Thomas Carlyle - Carlyle's two-volume The French Revolution, A History (1837) [2] is a romantic work, both in style and viewpoint. Passionate in his concern for the poor and in his interest in the fears and hopes of revolution, Carlyle (while reasonably historically accurate) is often more concerned with conveying his impression of the hopes and aspirations of people (and his opposition to ossified ideology ("formulas" or "Isms", as he called them) than with strict adherence to fact.
• Owen Connelly - The French Revolution (with Fred E. Hembree) 1993.
• William Doyle - Origins of the French Revolution (1988)
• Pierre Gaxotte - Royalist: The French Revolution (1928)
• François Guizot
• Jean Jaurès - socialist politician and historian during the early years of the Third Republic.
• Georges Lefebvre - Numerous works, including La Révolution française (revised edition 1951, translated in two volumes as The French Revolution (1962–1964) and The French Revolution from 1793 to 1799 (1964). Marxist; "history from below".
• Albert Mathiez - La Révolution français (3 volumes, 1922–1927, translated 1928, reprinted 1962) gives a socialist perspective on the revolution; worked closely with Jean Jaurès. Mathiez is one of the more outspoken partisans of Robespierre.
• Jules Michelet - Michelet's Histoire de la revolution française, published after the Revolution of 1848 is one of the lesser works of a generally highly esteemed writer. To quote the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, "In actual picturesqueness as well as in general veracity of picture, the book cannot approach Carlyle's; while as a mere chronicle of the events it is inferior to half a dozen prosaic histories older and younger than itself."
• François Mignet - Histoire de la Révolution Française (1824) first translated into English (1846). [3]
• Edgar Quinet - Late Romantic anti-Catholic nationalist.
• Simon Schama - Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989), is a generally right-wing history of the period.
• Albert Soboul - A left-wing late twentieth-century historian who wrote extensively about the French Revolution.
• Albert Sorel - diplomatic historian; Europe et la Révolution française (8 volumes, 1895–1904); introductory section of this work translated as Europe under the Old Regime (1947).
• Hippolyte Taine - Taine's 3-volume The French Revolution constitutes volumes 2-4 of his The Origins of Contemporary France. [4] Among the more conservative of the originators of social history.
• Alexis de Tocqueville - L’Ancien Régime et la révolution (1856, translated 1856)
• Francois Furet - 20th century revisionist French historian
  • The French Revolution 1770-1814 (1996) ISBN 0631202994
  • A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (1989) ISBN 0674177282 co-authored with Mona Ozouf and Arthur Goldhammer