Vive la Revolution"Thank goodness . . . for Mark Steel. Engagingly light hearted while clearly thorough, the author has taken the events of the French Revolution and given them a human face, as well as neatly poking fun at the over pomposity with which our recent historians have dealt with the period." The Observer "With Vive la Revolution [Steel] examines the raw material of 1789, not so much in search of laughs as in an attempt to reclaim the first popular revolution