THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 3
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, VOLUME 2.
by Hippolyte A. Taine
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CONTENTS
[ PREFACE: ]
[ BOOK FIRST. THE JACOBINS. ]
[ CHAPTER I. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW POLITICAL ORGAN. ][ I.—Principle of the revolutionary party. ]
[ CHAPTER II. THE JACOBINS ]
[ II.—The Jacobins. ]
[ III.—Psychology of the Jacobin. ]
[ IV.—What the theory promises. ][ I.—Formation of the party. ]
[ BOOK SECOND. THE FIRST STAGE OF THE CONQUEST. ]
[ II.—Spontaneous associations after July 14, 1789. ]
[ III.—How they view the liberty of the press. ]
[ IV.—Their rallying-points. ]
[ V.—Small number of Jacobins. ]
[ CHAPTER I. THE JACOBINS COME INTO IN POWER. ][ I.—Their siege operations. ]
[ CHAPTER II. THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ]
[ II.—Annoyances and dangers of public elections. ]
[ III.—The friends of order deprived of the right of free assemblage. ]
[ V.—Intimidation and withdrawal of the Conservatives. ][ I.—Composition of the Legislative Assembly. ]
[ CHAPTER III. POLICY OF THE ASSEMBLY ]
[ II.—Degree and quality of their intelligence and Culture. ]
[ III.—Aspects of their sessions. ]
[ IV.—The Parties. ]
[ V.—Their means of action. ]
[ VI.—Parliamentary maneuvers. ][ I.—Policy of the Assembly.—State of France at the end of 1791. ]
[ CHAPTER IV. THE DEPARTMENTS. ]
[ II.—The Assembly hostile to the oppressed and favoring oppressors. ]
[ III.—War. ]
[ IV.—Secret motives of the leaders. ]
[ V.—Effects of the war on the common people. ][ I.—Provence in 1792.—Early supremacy of the Jacobins in Marseilles. ]
[ CHAPTER V. PARIS. ]
[ II.—The expedition to Aix. ]
[ III.—The Constitutionalists of Arles. ]
[ IV.—The Jacobins of Avignon. ]
[ V.—The other departments. ][ I.—Pressure of the Assembly on the King. ]
[ CHAPTER VI. THE BIRTH OF THE TERRIBLE PARIS COMMUNE. ]
[ II.—The floating and poor population of Paris. ]
[ III.—Its leaders.—Their committee.—Methods for arousing the crowd. ]
[ IV.—The 20th of June. ][ I.—Indignation of the Constitutionalists. ]
[ BOOK THIRD. THE SECOND STAGE OF THE CONQUEST. ]
[ II.—Pressure on the King. ]
[ III.—The Girondins have worked for the benefit of the Jacobins. ]
[ IV.—Vain attempts of the Girondins to put it down. ]
[ V.—Evening of August 8. ]
[ VI.—Nights of August 9 and 10. ]
[ VII.—August 10. ]
[ VIII.—State of Paris in the Interregnum. ]
[ CHAPTER I. TERROR ][ I.—Government by gangs in times of anarchy. ]
[ CHAPTER II. THE DEPARTMENTS. ]
[ II.—The development of the ideas of killings in the mass of the party. ]
[ III. Terror is their Salvation. ]
[ IV.—Date of the determination of this.—The actors and their parts. ]
[ V. Abasement and Stupor. ]
[ VI. Jacobin Massacre. ][ I. The Sovereignty of the People. ]
[ CHAPTER III. SECOND STAGE OF THE JACOBIN CONQUEST ]
[ II.—In several departments it establishes itself in advance. ]
[ III.—Each Jacobin band a dictator in its own neighborhood. ]
[ IV.—Ordinary practices of the Jacobin dictatorship. ]
[ V.—The companies of traveling volunteers. ]
[ VI.—A tour of France in the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior. ][ I.—The second stage of the Jacobin conquest. ]
[ CHAPTER IV. PRECARIOUS SITUATION OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. ]
[ II.—The elections. ]
[ III.—Composition and tone of the secondary assemblies. ]
[ IV.—Composition of the National Convention. ]
[ V.—The Jacobins forming alone the Sovereign People. ]
[ VI.—Composition of the party. ]
[ VII. The Jacobin Chieftains. ][ I.—Jacobin advantages. ]
[ II.—Its parliamentary recruits. ]
[ III. Physical fear and moral cowardice. ]
[ IV. Jacobin victory over Girondin majority. ]
[ V. Jacobin violence against the people. ]
[ VI. Jacobin tactics. ]
[ VII. The central Jacobin committee in power. ]
[ VIII. Right or Wrong, my Country. ]