The French Revolution, 1787-1799

from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon.

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September 12, 2023 | History

The French Revolution, 1787-1799

from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon.

[1st American ed.]
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Random House
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English
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638

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The French Revolution, 1787-1799: from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon.
1975, Random House
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Table of Contents

Foreword to the English-language edition (1973)
Introduction : The crisis of the ancien regime.
The crisis of society
The institutional crisis
Preface to the bourgeois revolution : the revolt of the aristocracy (1787-1788)
Part one : The nation, the king, and the law : the bourgeois revolution and the popular movement (1789-1792).
The bourgeois revolution and the fall of the ancien regime (1789)
The constituent assembly and the failure of compromise (1790)
The bourgeoisie of the constituent assembly and the reconstruction of France (1789-1791)
The constituent assembly and the flight of the king (1791)
The legislative assembly, the war, and the overthrow of the monarchy (October 1791 to August 1792)
Part two : The despotism of liberty : revolutionary government and the popular movement (1792-1795).
The end of the legislative assembly : revolutionary momentum and the defence of the nation (August to September 1792)
The Girondin Convention and the failure of the liberal bourgeoisie (September 1972 to June 1793)
The Montagnard Convention : the popular movement and the dictatorship of public safety (June to December 1793)
The victory and the collapse of revolutionary government (December 1793 to July 1794)
The Thermidorian Convention, the bourgeois reaction, and the end of the popular movement (July 1794 to May 1795)
Part three : A country governed by landowners : bourgeois republic and social consolidation (1795-1799).
The end of the Thermidorian Convention, the treaties of 1795 and the constitution of Year III
The first directory : the failure of liberal stabilization (1795-1797)
The second directory : the end of the bourgeois republic (1797-1799)
Conclusion.
The Revolution and contemporary France
The revolutionary heritage
Recommended further reading

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [615]-617.
Translation of Précis d'histoire de la Révolution française.

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Dewey Decimal Class
944.04
Library of Congress
DC148 .S5613 1975, DC148.S5613 1975

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
638 p.
Number of pages
638
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

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OL5047556M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0394473922
ISBN 13
9780394473925
LCCN
74008159
OCLC/WorldCat
901047
Library Thing
838291
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1381353

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