Preface
I. The Two Great Currents of the Revolution
II. The Idea
III. Action
IV. The People before the Revolution
V. The Spirit of Revolt: the Riots
VI. The Convocation of the States-General becomes Necessary
VII. The Rising of the Country Districts during the Opening Months
of 1789
VIII. Riots in Paris and its Environs
IX. The States-General
X. Preparations for the Coup d'Etat
XI. Paris on the Eve of the Fourteenth
XII. The taking of the Bastille
XIII. The Consequences of July 14 at Versailles
XIV. The Popular Rising
XV. The Towns
XVI. The Peasant Rising
XVII. August 4 and its Consequences
XVIII. The Feudal Rights remain
XIX. Declareation of the Rights of Man
XX. The Fifth and Sixth of October 1789
XXI. Fears of the Middle Classes--The New Municipal Organisation
XXII. Financial Difficulties--Sale of Church Property
XXIII. The Fete of the Federation
XXIV. The "Districts" and the "Sections" of Paris
XXV. The Sections of Paris under the New Municipal Law
XXVI. Delays in the Abolition of the Feudal Rights
XXVII. Feudal Legislation in 1790
XXVIII. Arrest of the Revolution in 1790
XXIX. The Flight of the King--Reaction--End of the Constituent Assembly
XXX. The Legislative Assembly--Reaction in 1791-1792
XXXI. The Counter-Revolution in the South of France
XXXII. The Twentieth of June 1792
XXXIII. The Tenth of August: Its Immediate Consequences
XXXIV. The Interregnum--The Betrayals
XXXV. The September Days
XXXVI. The Convention--The Commune--The Jacobins
XXXVII. The Government--Conflicts with the Conventions--The War
XXXVIII. The Trial of the King
XXXIX. The "Mountain" and the Gironde
XL. Attempts of the Girondins to Stop the Revolution
XLI. The "Anarchists"
XLII. Causes of the Rising on May 31
XLIII. Social Demands--State of Feeling in Paris--Lyons
XLIV. The War--The Rising in La Vendée--Treachery of Dumouriez
XLV. A New Rising Rendered Inevitable
XLVI. The Insurrection of May 31 and June 2
XLVII. The Popular Revolution--Arbitrary Taxation
XLVIII. The Legislative Assembly and the Communal Lands
XLIX. The Lands Restored to the Communes
L. Final Abolition of the Feudal Rights
LI. The National Estates
LII. The Struggle Against Famine--The Maximum--Paper-Money
LIII. Counter-Revolution in Brittany--Assassination of Marat
LIV. The Vendée--Lyons--The Risings in Southern France
LV. The War--The Invasion Beaten Back
LVI. The Constitution--The Revolutionary Movement
LVII. The Exhaustion of the Revolutionary Spirit
LVIII. The Communist Movement
LIX. Schemes for the Socialisation of Land, Industries, Means of Substance
and Exchange
LX. The End of the Communist Movement
LXI. The Constitution of the Central Government--Reprisals
LXII. Education--The Metric-System-The New Calendar--Anti-Religious
Movement
LXIII. The Suppression of the Sections
LXIV. Struggle against the Hebertists
LXV. Fall of the Hebertists--Danton Executed
LXVI. Robespierre and his Group
LXVII. The Terror
LXVIII. The 9th Thermidor--Triumph of Reaction
Conclusion
Index