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 | | Aulard, a Leninist, established Robespierre reputation as “The Incorruptible.” Georges Lefebvre, who continued to promote Robespierre as a revolutionary hero, followed Albert Mathiez as editor of the Annales’ influential journal, is generally considered the primary Marxist historian of the French Revolution, an influence exerted through a similar professorship at the Sorbonne. |
 | | In “A Series of Class Revolts,” Lefebvre proposed the thesis, which has become known as the Lefebvre Thesis, that the French Revolution occurred in four stages, each marked by a predominant social class: the aristocratic revolution, the bourgeois revolution, the popular municipal revolution, and the peasant rural revolution. |
 | | Albert Soboul, “An Attack on Feudalism,” in Frank A. Kafker, et al., eds., The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations (Malabar, FL: Krieger, 2002), 82-93. |
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