THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, VOLUME 3. by Hippolyte A. Taine
PREFACE.
BOOK FIRST. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT.
CHAPTER I. JACOBIN GOVERNMENT
I. The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin.
II. Jacobin Dissimulation.
III. Primary Assemblies
IV. The Delegates reach Paris
V. Fete of August 10th
VI. The Mountain.
VII. Extent and Manifesto of the departmental insurrection
VIII. The Reasons for the Terror.
IX. Destruction of Rebel Cities
X. Destruction of the Girondin party
XI. Institutions of the Revolutionary Government
BOOK SECOND. THE JACOBIN PROGRAM.
CHAPTER I. THE JACOBIN PARTY
I. The Doctrine.
II. A Communist State.
III. The object of the State is the regeneration of man.
IV. Two distortions of the natural man.
V. Equality and Inequality.
VI. Conditions requisite for making a citizen.
VII. Socialist projects.
VIII. Indoctrination of mind and intellect.
CHAPTER II. REACTIONARY CONCEPT OF THE STATE.
I. Reactionary concept of the State.
II. Changed minds.
III. Origin and nature of the modern State.
IV. The state is tempted to encroach.
V. Direct common interest.
VI. Indirect common interest.
VII. Fabrication of social instruments.
VIII. Comparison between despotisms.
BOOK THIRD. THE MEN IN POWER.
CHAPTER I. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE JACOBIN LEADERS.
I. Marat.
II. Danton.
III. Robespierre.
CHAPTER II. THE RULERS OF THE COUNTRY.
I. The Convention.
II. Its participation in crime.
III. The Committee of Public Safety.
IV. The Statesmen.
V. Official Jacobin organs.
VI. Commissars of the Revolution.
VII. Brutal Instincts.
IX. Vice.
CHAPTER III. THE RULERS. (continued).
I. The Central Government Administration.
II. Subaltern Jacobins.
III. A Revolutionary Committee.
IV. Provincial Administration.
V. Jacobins sent to the Provinces.
VI. Quality of staff thus formed.
VII. The Armed Forces.
BOOK FOURTH. THE GOVERNED.
CHAPTER I. THE OPPRESSED.
I. Revolutionary Destruction.
II. The Value of Notables in Society.
III. The three classes of Notables.
IV. The Clergy.
V. The Bourgeoisie.
VI. The Demi-notables.
VII. Principle of socialist Equality.
VIII. Rigor against the Upper Classes.
IX. The Jacobin Citizen Robot.
X. The Governors and the Governed.
CHAPTER II. FOOD AND PROVISIONS.
I. Economical Complexity of Food Chain.
II. Conditions in 1793. A Lesson in Market Economics.
III. Privation.
IV. Hunger.
V. Revolutionary Remedies.
VI. Relaxation.
VII. Misery at Paris.
BOOK FIFTH. THE END OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT.
CHAPTER I. THE CONVENTION.
I. The Convention. (2)
II. Re-election of the Two-thirds.
III. A Directory of Regicides.
IV. Public Opinon.
VI. The Directory.
VII. Enforcement of Pure Jacobinism.
VIII. Propaganda and Foreign Conquests.
IX. National Disgust.
X. Contrast between Civil and Military France.
