Abstract
This document is an extract of the book ?Everyday life through the ages' written by Asa Briggs and published in 1992. In this book, the author relates the way of life as it has developed through the centuries. It is important to understand the approach with which she tackles the American and French Revolutions that the text deals with. However the book is not directed at relating the events or presenting a chronology of this period. Instead it presents the social and ideological approach of the revolutions. The questions it addresses are: What does the word revolution means in the context of everyday life? What was the social impact of revolutions, and what ideas were claimed? This text tries to find answers to these questions. Moreover, the principle aim is to compare the French Revolution with American one. The fact that France took part in the American War with Lafayette is the beginning of relations between France and the US. In my opinion, this book will help us tackle the following question: On what points were American and French revolutions united, and what were the main differences between them? I will argue this point in three steps. Firstly we will try to name the American and French revolutions the ?sisters'; then we will then see that un spite of the similarities, the French revolution was a unique experience and finally we will present the supranational impacts of both revolutions.
