The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 4: The French Revolution, Volume 3 by Hippolyte A. Taine

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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

Title

The French Revolution - Volume 3

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Produced by Svend Rom and David Widger

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English

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DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco

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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799

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2580

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June 22, 2008

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Contents

1. 1.THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 4
2. 2.by Hippolyte A. Taine
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.BOOK FIRST. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. JACOBIN GOVERNMENT
6. 6.I. The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin.
7. 7.II. Jacobin Dissimulation.
8. 8.III. Primary Assemblies
9. 9.IV. The Delegates reach Paris
10. 10.V. Fête of August 10th
11. 11.VI. The Mountain.
12. 12.VII. Extent and Manifesto of the departmental insurrection
13. 13.VIII. The Reasons for the Terror.
14. 14.IX. Destruction of Rebel Cities
15. 15.X. Destruction of the Girondin party
16. 16.XI. Institutions of the Revolutionary Government
17. 17.BOOK SECOND. THE JACOBIN PROGRAM.
18. 18.CHAPTER I. THE JACOBIN PARTY
19. 19.I. The Doctrine.
20. 20.II. A Communist State.
21. 21.III. The object of the State is the regeneration of man.
22. 22.IV. Two distortions of the natural man.
23. 23.V. Equality and Inequality.
24. 24.VI. Conditions requisite for making a citizen.
25. 25.VII. Socialist projects.
26. 26.VIII. Indoctrination of mind and intellect.
27. 27.CHAPTER II. REACTIONARY CONCEPT OF THE STATE.
28. 28.I. Reactionary concept of the State.
29. 29.II. Changed minds.
30. 30.III. Origin and nature of the modern State.
31. 31.IV. The state is tempted to encroach.
32. 32.V. Direct common interest.
33. 33.VI. Indirect common interest.
34. 34.VII. Fabrication of social instruments.
35. 35.VIII. Comparison between despotisms.
36. 36.BOOK THIRD. THE MEN IN POWER.
37. 37.CHAPTER I. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE JACOBIN LEADERS.
38. 38.I. Marat.
39. 39.II. Danton.
40. 40.III. Robespierre.
41. 41.CHAPTER II. THE RULERS OF THE COUNTRY.
42. 42.I. The Convention.
43. 43.II. Its participation in crime.
44. 44.III. The Committee of Public Safety.
45. 45.IV. The Statesmen.
46. 46.V. Official Jacobin organs.
47. 47.VI. Commissars of the Revolution.
48. 48.VII. Brutal Instincts.
49. 49.IX. Vice.
50. 50.CHAPTER III. THE RULERS. (continued).
51. 51.I. The Central Government Administration.
52. 52.II. Subaltern Jacobins.
53. 53.III. A Revolutionary Committee.
54. 54.IV. Provincial Administration.
55. 55.V. Jacobins sent to the Provinces.
56. 56.VI. Quality of staff thus formed.
57. 57.VII. The Armed Forces.
58. 58.BOOK FOURTH. THE GOVERNED.
59. 59.CHAPTER I. THE OPPRESSED.
60. 60.I. Revolutionary Destruction.
61. 61.II. The Value of Notables in Society.
62. 62.III. The three classes of Notables.
63. 63.IV. The Clergy.
64. 64.V. The Bourgeoisie.
65. 65.VI. The Demi-notables.
66. 66.VII. Principle of socialist Equality.
67. 67.VIII. Rigor against the Upper Classes.
68. 68.IX. The Jacobin Citizen Robot.
69. 69.X. The Governors and the Governed.
70. 70.CHAPTER II. FOOD AND PROVISIONS.
71. 71.I. Economical Complexity of Food Chain.
72. 72.II. Conditions in 1793. A Lesson in Market Economics.
73. 73.III. Privation.
74. 74.IV. Hunger.
75. 75.V. Revolutionary Remedies.
76. 76.VI. Relaxation.
77. 77.VII. Misery at Paris.
78. 78.BOOK FIFTH. THE END OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT.
79. 79.CHAPTER I. THE CONVENTION.
80. 80.I. The Convention.
81. 81.II. Re-election of the Two-thirds.
82. 82.III. A Directory of Regicides.
83. 83.IV. Public Opinon.
84. 84.VI. The Directory.
85. 85.VII. Enforcement of Pure Jacobinism.
86. 86.VIII. Propaganda and Foreign Conquests.
87. 87.IX. National Disgust.
88. 88.X. Contrast between Civil and Military France.

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