The French Revolution, 1787-1799
Subtitle: from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon.
By: Translated from the French by Alan Forrest & Colin Jones.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780394473925
Subjects: France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [615]-617.
Translation of Précis d'histoire de la Révolution française.
Table of contents: title: Foreword to the English-language edition (1973); title: Introduction : The crisis of the ancien regime.; title: The crisis of society; title: The institutional crisis; title: Preface to the bourgeois revolution : the revolt of the aristocracy (1787-1788); title: Part one : The nation, the king, and the law : the bourgeois revolution and the popular movement (1789-1792).; title: The bourgeois revolution and the fall of the ancien regime (1789); title: The constituent assembly and the failure of compromise (1790); title: The bourgeoisie of the constituent assembly and the reconstruction of France (1789-1791); title: The constituent assembly and the flight of the king (1791); title: The legislative assembly, the war, and the overthrow of the monarchy (October 1791 to August 1792); title: Part two : The despotism of liberty : revolutionary government and the popular movement (1792-1795).; title: The end of the legislative assembly : revolutionary momentum and the defence of the nation (August to September 1792); title: The Girondin Convention and the failure of the liberal bourgeoisie (September 1972 to June 1793); title: The Montagnard Convention : the popular movement and the dictatorship of public safety (June to December 1793); title: The victory and the collapse of revolutionary government (December 1793 to July 1794); title: The Thermidorian Convention, the bourgeois reaction, and the end of the popular movement (July 1794 to May 1795); title: Part three : A country governed by landowners : bourgeois republic and social consolidation (1795-1799).; title: The end of the Thermidorian Convention, the treaties of 1795 and the constitution of Year III; title: The first directory : the failure of liberal stabilization (1795-1797); title: The second directory : the end of the bourgeois republic (1797-1799); title: Conclusion.; title: The Revolution and contemporary France; title: The revolutionary heritage; title: Recommended further reading