The French Revolution : from Enlightenment to tyranny /
The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom, equality, and authority. Yet it remains an elusive, perplexing historical event. Its significance morphs according to the sympathies of the viewer, who may see it as a series of gory...
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2016.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- États Généraux
- The fall of Necker
- The storming of the Bastille
- The dismantling of feudalism
- Declaration of the rights of man
- The King moves to Paris
- The Assembly starts to govern France
- The revolutionaries reform the Church
- The flight of the King
- The rush to war
- The overthrow of the monarchy
- The Commune insurrectionnelle
- The Convention
- The wars in 1792 : from Valmy to Jemappes
- The trial of the King
- Girondins and Montagnards
- The fall of the Girondins
- The civil wars of 1793
- The Gouvernement Révolutionnaire
- The Terreur
- The spasm of religion to the fall of Danton
- The fall of Robespierre
- The aftermath
- Epilogue
- A note on the children of Louis XVI ; A note on the franchise for women ; The coups d'état of the French Revolution ; The French text of the Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789 ; A note on money and inflation ; A note on the Comité de Salut Public ; A note on death and the Revolution.