The people's armies
Subtitle: instrument of the terror in the departments April 1793 to Floreal Year II
By: Richard Cobb ; translated by Marianne Elliott.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 776
Subjects: France -- History -- Revolution, 1793-1794
Description: "...As well as to carry out arrest warrants and guard political prisoners, the Convention authorized local authorities to create paramilitary forces. About 50 such armées révolutionnaires came into being as ambulatory instruments of the Terror in the provinces."--www.britannica.com.
Notes: Translation of: Armees revolutionnaires.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographic references.