First edition. Eighth volume of General History edited by Lavisse and Rambaud. The volume is devoted mainly to the French Revolution and the decade 1789-1799. The point of view of the work is quite modern, it is a collection of articles by researchers on specific points of history and in an unprecedented way, for a history of the French revolution, many chapters are devoted to the history of other countries during the same period. What was happening in Indoustan in 1789?.