Michael J. LaMonica. Illustrated by Tom Motley.

While most people have some familiarity with names like Louis XVI and Napoleon, the details of what exactly happened during the French Revolution – apart from pithy royal pronouncements about cake eating and the everfalling blade of the guillotine – are often difficult to understand, and for good reason: there were a whopping 15 changes of government in less than a century! French Revolutions For Beginners will present the major political figures, events and hot-button political issues of this extremely violent, chaotic, confusing – but always exciting – period in a way that is accessible, interesting, and fun to both history-buffs and the neophyte alike.