THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, VOLUME 2. by Hippolyte A. Taine
PREFACE:
BOOK FIRST. THE JACOBINS.
CHAPTER I. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW POLITICAL ORGAN.
I. Principle of the revolutionary party.
II. The Jacobins.
III. Psychology of the Jacobin.
IV. What the theory promises.
CHAPTER II.
I. Formation of the party.
II. Spontaneous associations after July 14, 1789.
III. How they view the liberty of the press.
IV. Their rallying-points.
V. Small number of Jacobins.
BOOK SECOND. THE FIRST STAGE OF THE CONQUEST.
CHAPTER I. THE JACOBINS COME INTO IN POWER.
I. Their siege operations.
II. Annoyances and dangers of public elections.
III. The friends of order deprived of the right of free assemblage.
V. Intimidation and withdrawal of the Conservatives.
CHAPTER II. (2)
I. Composition of the Legislative Assembly.
II. Degree and quality of their intelligence and Culture.
III. Aspects of their sessions.
IV. The Parties.
V. Their means of action.
VI. Parliamentary maneuvers.
CHAPTER III.
I. Policy of the Assembly. State of France at the end of 1791.
II. The Assembly hostile to the oppressed and favoring oppressors.
III. War.
IV. Secret motives of the leaders.
V. Effects of the war on the common people.
CHAPTER IV. THE DEPARTMENTS.
I. Provence in 1792. Early supremacy of the Jacobins in Marseilles.
II. The expedition to Aix.
III. The Constitutionalists of Arles.
IV. The Jacobins of Avignon.
V. The other departments.
CHAPTER V. PARIS.
I. Pressure of the Assembly on the King.
II. The floating and poor population of Paris.
III. Its leaders. Their committee. Methods for arousing the crowd.
IV. The 20th of June.
CHAPTER VI. THE BIRTH OF THE TERRIBLE PARIS COMMUNE.
I. Indignation of the Constitutionalists.
II. Pressure on the King.
III. The Girondins have worked for the benefit of the Jacobins.
IV. Vain attempts of the Girondins to put it down.
V. Evening of August 8.
VI. Nights of August 9 and 10.
VII. August 10.
VIII. State of Paris in the Interregnum.
BOOK THIRD. THE SECOND STAGE OF THE CONQUEST.
CHAPTER I.
I. Government by gangs in times of anarchy.
II. The development of the ideas of killings in the mass of the party.
III. Terror is their Salvation.
IV. Date of the determination of this. The actors and their parts.
V. Abasement and Stupor.
VI. Jacobin Massacre.
CHAPTER II. THE DEPARTMENTS.
I. The Sovereignty of the People.
II. In several departments it establishes itself in advance.
III. Each Jacobin band a dictator in its own neighborhood.
IV. Ordinary practices of the Jacobin dictatorship.
V. The companies of traveling volunteers.
VI. A tour of France in the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior.
CHAPTER III. (2)
I. The second stage of the Jacobin conquest.
II. The elections.
III. Composition and tone of the secondary assemblies.
IV. Composition of the National Convention.
V. The Jacobins forming alone the Sovereign People.
VI. Composition of the party.
VII. The Jacobin Chieftains.
CHAPTER IV. PRECARIOUS SITUATION OF A CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LOCKED UP WITHIN A LOCAL JURISDICTION.
I. Jacobin advantages.
II. Its parliamentary recruits.
III. Physical fear and moral cowardice.
IV. Jacobin victory over Girondin majority.
V. Jacobin violence against the people.
VI. Jacobin tactics.
VII. The central Jacobin committee in power.
VIII. Right or Wrong, my Country.
