The French Revolution - Volume 3
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- THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 4
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, VOLUME 3. by Hippolyte A. Taine
- PREFACE.
- BOOK FIRST. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT.
- CHAPTER I. JACOBIN GOVERNMENT
- I. The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin.
- II. Jacobin Dissimulation.
- III. Primary Assemblies
- IV. The Delegates reach Paris
- V. Fête of August 10th
- VI. The Mountain.
- VII. Extent and Manifesto of the departmental insurrection
- VIII. The Reasons for the Terror.
- IX. Destruction of Rebel Cities
- X. Destruction of the Girondin party
- XI. Institutions of the Revolutionary Government
- BOOK SECOND. THE JACOBIN PROGRAM.
- CHAPTER I. THE JACOBIN PARTY
- I. The Doctrine.
- II. A Communist State.
- III. The object of the State is the regeneration of man.
- IV. Two distortions of the natural man.
- V. Equality and Inequality.
- VI. Conditions requisite for making a citizen.
- VII. Socialist projects.
- VIII. Indoctrination of mind and intellect.
- CHAPTER II. REACTIONARY CONCEPT OF THE STATE.
- I. Reactionary concept of the State.
- II. Changed minds.
- III. Origin and nature of the modern State.
- IV. The state is tempted to encroach.
- V. Direct common interest.
- VI. Indirect common interest.
- VII. Fabrication of social instruments.
- VIII. Comparison between despotisms.
- BOOK THIRD. THE MEN IN POWER.
- CHAPTER I. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE JACOBIN LEADERS.
- I. Marat.
- II. Danton.
- III. Robespierre.
- CHAPTER II. THE RULERS OF THE COUNTRY.
- I. The Convention.
- II. Its participation in crime.
- III. The Committee of Public Safety.
- IV. The Statesmen.
- V. Official Jacobin organs.
- VI. Commissars of the Revolution.
- VII. Brutal Instincts.
- IX. Vice.
- CHAPTER III. THE RULERS. (continued).
- I. The Central Government Administration.
- II. Subaltern Jacobins.
- III. A Revolutionary Committee.
- IV. Provincial Administration.
- V. Jacobins sent to the Provinces.
- VI. Quality of staff thus formed.
- VII. The Armed Forces.
- BOOK FOURTH. THE GOVERNED.
- CHAPTER I. THE OPPRESSED.
- I. Revolutionary Destruction.
- II. The Value of Notables in Society.
- III. The three classes of Notables.
- IV. The Clergy.
- V. The Bourgeoisie.
- VI. The Demi-notables.
- VII. Principle of socialist Equality.
- VIII. Rigor against the Upper Classes.
- IX. The Jacobin Citizen Robot.
- X. The Governors and the Governed.
- CHAPTER II. FOOD AND PROVISIONS.
- I. Economical Complexity of Food Chain.
- II. Conditions in 1793. A Lesson in Market Economics.
- III. Privation.
- IV. Hunger.
- V. Revolutionary Remedies.
- VI. Relaxation.
- VII. Misery at Paris.
- BOOK FIFTH. THE END OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT.
- CHAPTER I. THE CONVENTION.
- I. The Convention.
- II. Re-election of the Two-thirds.
- III. A Directory of Regicides.
- IV. Public Opinon.
- VI. The Directory.
- VII. Enforcement of Pure Jacobinism.
- VIII. Propaganda and Foreign Conquests.
- IX. National Disgust.
- X. Contrast between Civil and Military France.
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