KIRSTY CARPENTER is a Senior Lecturer in European History in the School of History, Philosophy and Politics at Massey University, New Zealand. Her first book
Refugees of the French Revolution: Émigrés in London, 1792-1802 will appear in 1999. Her specialist interest focuses on the political literature of the French Revolution. She is currently working on Marie-Joseph Chénier, a member of the Convention and the Revolution's official poet.
PHILIP MANSEL is an historian of courts and royal dynasties and editor of
The Court Historian, newsletter of the Society for Court Studies. He is the author of biographies on
Louis XVIII and the
Prince de Ligne and his other published works include
Sultans in Splendour: The last years of the Ottoman World, and
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire 1453-1924. He is currently working on a history of Paris from 1815-1848.