François Furet

The author makes a balance of the main works and the intellectual evolution of the French historian Franqois Furet, died recently in July 1997.
Originally relationated with the members of the group of «Annales», he made an important revision of the classical leftist interpretation of the French Revolution. He adopted on this subject some of the arguments of Tocqueville in spite of Marx comments on the revolutionary process. Among his last works it has a great importance "Le passd d'une illusion", where he targeted his critic on the relationship between western intellectuality and comunism.