Dans ce deuxi�me tome, l'historien analyse les soubresauts constitutionnels cons�cutifs � l'�branlement de 1789: l'�chec des restaurations monarchiques, la r�volution de 1848 et la deuxi�me R�publique, le Second Empire, avant la refondation de la R�publique en 1870.
François Furet (27 March 1927, Paris – 12 July 1997, Figeac) was a French historian, and president of the Saint-Simon Foundation, well known for his books on the French Revolution.
He was elected to the Académie française in March 1997, just three months before he died in July.