A People's History of the French Revolution
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A People's History of the French Revolution

  1. 432 pages
  2. English
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A People's History of the French Revolution

About this book

The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat - the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical imagination for more than 200 years. It has been a template for heroic insurrection and, to more conservative minds, a cautionary tale.
Looking at history from the bottom up, Hazan presents the revolution as a rational and pure struggle for emancipation. In this new history, the first significant account of the French Revolution in over twenty years, Hazan maintains that it fundamentally changed the Western world - for the better.

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Information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781781685891
eBook ISBN
9781781686751
Topic
History
Subtopic
French History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Chapter 1: How Things Stood: France under Louis XVI
  9. Chapter 2: Towards the Estates-General: Impending bankruptcy, the rebellion of the Parlements, provincial disturbances, elections
  10. Chapter 3: May to September 1789: The Estates-General, the Constituent Assembly at Versailles – the Tennis Court oath, the storming of the Bastille, the Great Fear, the night of 4 August, the Declaration of Rights
  11. Chapter 4: October 1789 to July 1790: The Constituent Assembly in Paris – The journĂ©es of 5 and 6 October, the clubs, administrative reorganization, the FĂȘte de la FĂ©dĂ©ration
  12. Chapter 5: July 1790 to September 1791: The Nancy massacre, the flight to Varennes, the massacre on the Champ-de-Mars, repression
  13. Chapter 6: October 1791 to June 1792: The Legislative Assembly moves towards war, the duel between Brissot and Robespierre, the first defeats
  14. Chapter 7: June to August 1792: The journée of 20 June, the Brunswick Manifesto, the taking of the Tuileries, the end of the monarchy, the September massacres
  15. Chapter 8: September 1792 to January 1793: The opening of the Convention – Valmy, the proclamation of the Republic, the clash between Gironde and Montagne, the trial and execution of the king
  16. Chapter 9: October 1792 to June 1793: From victory to defeat, the declaration of war against England and Spain, the insurrection in the Vendée, the fall of the Gironde
  17. Chapter 10: June to October 1793: The ‘federalist’ uprisings, the Committee of Public Safety, the assassination of Marat, the EnragĂ©s and the popular movement, the general maximum
  18. Chapter 11: October to December 1793: Trial and execution of the Girondins, the Wattignies victory, the end of the Vendée war, repression
  19. Chapter 12: Autumn 1793: Dechristianization, the cultural revolution of year II, the Frimaire reversal
  20. Chapter 13: Brumaire to Germinal year II/November 1793 to April 1794: The ‘foreign plot’, the fall of the ‘factions’: trial and execution of the Cordeliers and Dantonists
  21. Chapter 14: April to July 1794: The dramas of Germinal and Thermidor
  22. Epilogue: The meaning of 9 Thermidor
  23. Index