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William DoyleFBA (born 1942) is a British historian, specialising in 18th-century France, who is most notable for his one-volumeOxford History of the French Revolution (1st edition, 1989; 2nd edition, 2002; 3rd edition, 2018).^[1]

He is one of the leadingrevisionist historians of theFrench Revolution, obtaining his doctorate from theUniversity of Oxford with his thesisThe parlementaires of Bordeaux at the end of the eighteenth century, 1775–1790.^[2]

He is also professor emeritus of history atBristol University,^[3] a fellow of theBritish Academy^[4] and a trustee ofThe Society for the Study of French History.

• Parlement of Bordeaux and the End of the Old Regime (St. Martin's Press, 1975)
• The Old European Order 1660–1800 (Oxford University Press, 1978)
• Origins of the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1980; 3rd edition, 1992)
• The Ancien Regime (Macmillan, 1986)
• The Oxford History of the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1989; second edition, 2002;third edition, 2018)
• Venality: the Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford University Press, 1996)
• Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution (Macmillan, 1999)
• The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2001)
• Aristocracy and Its Enemies in the Age of Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Napoleon at Peace (Reaktion Books, 2022)

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• British historians
• Historians of France
• Historians of the French Revolution
• People educated at Bridlington School
• Fellows of the British Academy

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