The French Revolution - Volume 3 Papyras Classics

The French Revolution - Volume 3

by Hippolyte Taine

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. I. The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin
  3. II. Jacobin Dissimulation
  4. III. Primary Assemblies
  5. IV. The Delegates reach Paris
  6. V. Fête of August 10th
  7. VI. The Mountain
  8. VII. Extent and Manifesto of the departmental insurrection
  9. VIII. The Reasons for the Terror
  10. IX. Destruction of Rebel Cities
  11. X. Destruction of the Girondin party
  12. XI. Institutions of the Revolutionary Government
  13. I. The Doctrine
  14. II. A Communist State
  15. III. The object of the State is the regeneration of man
  16. IV. Two distortions of the natural man
  17. V. Equality and Inequality
  18. VI. Conditions requisite for making a citizen
  19. VII. Socialist projects
  20. VIII. Indoctrination of mind and intellect
  21. I. Reactionary concept of the State
  22. II. Changed minds
  23. III. Origin and nature of the modern State
  24. IV. The state is tempted to encroach
  25. V. Direct common interest
  26. VI. Indirect common interest
  27. VII. Fabrication of social instruments
  28. VIII. Comparison between despotisms
  29. I. Marat
  30. II. Danton
  31. III. Robespierre
  32. Chapter II. The Rulers of the Country
  33. I. The Convention
  34. II. Its participation in crime
  35. III. The Committee of Public Safety
  36. IV. The Statesmen
  37. V. Official Jacobin organs
  38. VI. Commissars of the Revolution
  39. VII. Brutal Instincts
  40. IX. Vice
  41. I. The Central Government Administration
  42. II. Subaltern Jacobins
  43. III. A Revolutionary Committee
  44. IV. Provincial Administration
  45. V. Jacobins sent to the Provinces
  46. VI. Quality of staff thus formed
  47. VII. The Armed Forces
  48. I. Revolutionary Destruction
  49. II. The Value of Notables in Society
  50. III. The three classes of Notables
  51. IV. The Clergy
  52. V. The Bourgeoisie
  53. VI. The Demi-notables
  54. VII. Principle of socialist Equality
  55. VIII. Rigor against the Upper Classes
  56. IX. The Jacobin Citizen Robot
  57. X. The Governors and the Governed
  58. I. Economical Complexity of Food Chain
  59. II. Conditions in 1793. A Lesson in Market Economics
  60. III. Privation
  61. IV. Hunger
  62. V. Revolutionary Remedies
  63. VI. Relaxation
  64. VII. Misery at Paris
  65. I. The Convention
  66. II. Re-election of the Two-thirds
  67. III. A Directory of Regicides
  68. IV. Public Opinon
  69. VI. The Directory
  70. VII. Enforcement of Pure Jacobinism
  71. VIII. Propaganda and Foreign Conquests
  72. IX. National Disgust
  73. X. Contrast between Civil and Military France

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