IDENTITY
The French Revolution
Other Nonfiction
Work Summary
A dramatic narrative history of the French Revolution from the collapse of the ancien régime through the revolutionary upheavals. Carlyle combines historical documentation with highly literary narration, emphasizing mass action, political crisis and the psychological force of revolutionary events.
Evidence Summary
He had encountered excerpts through Taine and had copied Carlyle fragments in a poetry album.
Shows partial and mediated engagement rather than a simple read/not-read binary.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Thomas Carlyle
Work
The French Revolution
Years / Period
30 Oct 1877
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
30 Oct 1877 — Letter 133
Read · Partially read / encountered in extracts
Van Gogh says the work was not unknown to him but that he had not read all of it.
Response: He had encountered excerpts through Taine and had copied Carlyle fragments in a poetry album.
Connection: Shows partial and mediated engagement rather than a simple read/not-read binary.
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