Table of Contents
List of Maps ix
Introduction x
1 Patchworks of Power and Privilege: France in the 1780s 1
2 A World of Intellectual Ferment 23
3 Mismanaging Crisis, 1785-88 39
4 The People's Revolution, 1789 58
5 Regenerating the Nation, 1789-90 81
6 The Revolution Triumphant, 1790 102
7 Fracturing Christ's Family: Religious Schism and the King's Flight, 1790-91 119
8 Fear and Fury, 1791-92, and a Second Revolution 142
9 Republicans at the Crossroads, 1792-93 164
10 Liberty or Death: Choosing Sides in Violent Times, 1793 188
11 'Terror until the peace', July-October 1793 205
12 Saving a Republic of Virtue, October 1793-April 1794 228
13 Terror, Victory and Collapse, April-July 1794 252
14 Settling Scores: The Thermidorian Reaction, 1794-95 274
15 Men with a Stake in Society, 1795-97 297
16 The Great Nation and its Enemies, 1797-99 321
17 The Significance of the French Revolution 342
Chronology 371
The Revolutionary Calendar 380
Notes 381
Select Bibliography 434
Index 455
Illustration Credits 469