To provide a ferroelectric liquid crystal display device which is reduce in a display history sharply and has a wide range of operating temps. by dissolving the maldistribution of impure ions.

In a reset period, a first reset pulse 21, a first reverse-polarity pulse 22 which is continuous to the first reset pulse 21 and whose polarity is reverse to that of the pulse 21, a second reset pulse 23 which is continuous to the reverse-polarity pulse 22 and a second reverse-polarity pulse 24 which is continuous to the second reset pulse 23 and whose polarity is reverse to that of the second reset pulse 23 are impressed. Moreover, a selection pulse 25 is impressed in the second slot of a selection period. Furthermore, a pulse 26 whose polarity is reverse to that of the selection pulse 25 is impressed succeeding to the pulse 25.