Contents: The Perspective of the French Revolution, Versailles, Economic Crisis, Convocation of the States General, France Comes to Versailles, From Versailles to Paris, The Assembly Demolishes Privilege, The Flight to Varennes, War Breaks Out, The Massacre, Ending the Monarchy, The Fall of the Gironde, The Reign of Terror, Thermidor. The Last Days of the Convention, the Directoire, Art and Literature.
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