The French Revolution - A Short History
by R. M. Johnston
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About this eBook
- Author
- Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson), 1867-1920
- Title
- The French Revolution: A Short History
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco
- Subject
- France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 19421
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19421
- Release Date
- October 1, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.[Frontispiece: 1. Voltaire. 2. Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine. 3. Fouquier-Tinville. 4. Carrier. 5. Danton before the Tribunal Revolutionnaire.] — The French Revolution
- 2.A SHORT HISTORY — By R. M. Johnston — M.A., CANTAB. Assistant Professor of History in Harvard University — NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1910. — TO Rayner Neate IN MEMORY OF OLD PEMBROKE DAYS — PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.THE FRENCH REVOLUTION — CHAPTER I — THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION — CHAPTER II — VERSAILLES — CHAPTER III — ECONOMIC CRISIS — CHAPTER IV — CONVOCATION OF THE STATES-GENERAL — CHAPTER V — FRANCE COMES TO VERSAILLES — CHAPTER VI — FROM VERSAILLES TO PARIS — CHAPTER VII — THE ASSEMBLY DEMOLISHES PRIVILEGE — CHAPTER VIII — THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES — CHAPTER IX — WAR BREAKS OUT — CHAPTER X — THE MASSACRES — CHAPTER XI — ENDING THE MONARCHY — CHAPTER XII — THE FALL OF THE GIRONDE — CHAPTER XIII — THE REIGN OF TERROR — CHAPTER XIV — THERMIDOR — CHAPTER XV — THE LAST DAYS OF THE CONVENTION — CHAPTER XVI — THE DIRECTOIRE — CHAPTER XVII — ART AND LITERATURE — END — INDEX OF NAMES OF PLACES AND PERSONS
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