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1. How Things Stood <br/>France under Louis XVI<br/><br/>2. Towards the Estates-General<br/>Impending bankruptcy, the rebellion of the Parlements, provincial disturbances, elections<br/><br/>3. May to September 1789<br/>The Estates-General, the Constituent Assembly at Versailles - the Tennis Court oath, the storming of the Bastille, the Great Fear, the night of 4 August, the Declaration of Rights<br/><br/>4. October 1789 to July 1790<br/>The Constituent Assembly in Paris — The journees of 5 and 6 October, the clubs,<br/>administrative reorganization, the Fete de la Federation<br/><br/>5. July 1790 to September 1791<br/>The Nancy massacre, the flight to Varennes, the massacre on the Champde-Mars, repression<br/><br/>6. October 1791 to June 1792<br/>The Leslative Assembly moves towards war, the duel between Brissot and Robespierre, the first defeats <br/><br/>7. June to August 1792<br/>The journee of 20 June, the Brunswick Manifesto, the taking ofthe Tuileries, the end of the monarchy, the September massacres<br/><br/>8. September 1792 to January 1793<br/>The opening of the Convention — Valmy, the proclamation of the Republic, the clash between Gironde and Montagne, the trial and execution of the king<br/><br/>9. October 1792 to June 1793<br/>From victory to defeat, the declaration of war against England and Spain, the insurrection in the Vendee, the fall of the Gironde<br/><br/>10. June to October 1793<br/>The federalist' uprising, the Committee of Public Safety, the assassination of Marat, the Enrages and the popular movement, the general maximum<br/><br/>11. October to December 1793<br/>Trial and execution of the Girondins, the Wattignies victory, the end of the Vendee war, the repression<br/><br/>12. Autumn 1793<br/>Dechristianization, the cultural revolution of year II, the Frimaire reversal<br/><br/>13. Brumaire to Germinal Year II / November 1793 to April 1794<br/>The foreign plot', the fall of the factions': trial and execution of the Cordeliers and Dantonists<br/><br/>14. April to July 1794<br/>The dramas of Germinal and Thermidor <br/><br/>Epilogue: The Meaning of 9 Thermidor<br/>Index<br/> |
