Léonard Bourdon
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Léonard Bourdon

The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807

  1. 445 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Léonard Bourdon

The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807

About this book

Léonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807 illustrates the ways in which one individual was affected by and influenced the long and turbulent course of the French Revolution. It also rescues an active, intelligent and interesting man from a prolonged period of scholarly neglect and redeems his reputation from being perceived as a particularly cruel revolutionary terrorist.

Sydenham follows Bourdon's political career from the final days of the old monarchy through Bourdon's active participation in the Revolution. Bourdon was always aware that political development must be accompanied by educational change, and his lifelong interest in education is an integral part of his story.

Bourdon left remarkably few personal papers. During the painstaking exploration for details of his life, several critical as well as unfamiliar events of the period have been illuminated, suggesting that similar misrepresentations of many other relatively unknown French revolutionaries have distorted current understanding of this period, crucial to the growth and development of modern democracy.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Preface
  4. The Revolutionary Calendar
  5. Terminology
  6. Abbreviations
  7. 1. A Reformer and His Son (1754-89)
  8. 2. The Revolution of 1789: The Political Activist
  9. 3. A Frustrated Reformer (1789-92)
  10. 4. Commitment to Revolution (July to September 1792)
  11. 5. Regicide (September 1792 to January 1793)
  12. 6. The Representative on Mission (January to May 1793)
  13. 7. "The Martyr of Liberty" (March to July 1793)
  14. 8. Further Frustration (July to September 1793)
  15. 9. The Approach to Extremism (September to December 1793)
  16. 10. Under Suspicion (December 1793 to July 1794)
  17. 11. In Adversity (July to November 1794)
  18. 12. Persecution (November 1794 to October 1795)
  19. 13. Starting Anew (October 1795 to July 1798)
  20. 14. A Servant of the State (July 1798 to May 1807)
  21. 15. Conclusions
  22. Appendices
  23. Chronology
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index