The French Revolution : a document collection /
[TofC cont.] Directory and consulate (1795-1803): Orchestrating politics from above; Dissenters and opponents; Cultural life; Napoleon closes the Revolution. This ... collection of primary sources illustrates the political, cultural, and social diversity of the French Revolutionary period from t...
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Table of Contents:
- From Old Regime to Revolution (1610-1789): Pre-Revolution, A treatise on orders (1610) / C. Loyseau, Social contract (1762) / J.-J. Rousseau; From Estates General to National Assembly, What is the Third Estate? (January 1789) / A. Sieyes, Declaration of the National Assembly (June 17, 1789); Emergence of popular revolution, Rural unrest, Debate over the King's veto
- From liberal to Republican Revolution (1789-1792): Legislating an enlightened regime, Declaration of the rights of man and citizen (August 26, 1789); Revolution in the countryside, Continuing contest over Seigneurial rights; New tensions, Debate over the Civil Constitution of the Clergy; War and a new revolution, Debate over the Declaration of War
- Republican crisis (1793-1795): Popular movements beyond the convention, People's friend (June 23, 1793) / J.-P. Marat, Memoirs concerning the Vendee War; Legislating the terror, Constitution of the Year I (June 24, 1793); Revolution in society and culture, Decree regulating divorce (September 20, 1792); Thermidoran reaction, J.-L. Tallien on the Terror (August 28, 1794) [Cont. in Annot.]