Voices of the French Revolution /
Richard Cobb, general editor, Colin Jones, editor.
- Topsfield, Mass. : Salem House Publishers, c1988.
- 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 244-247.
Chapter one: 1788-1789 The great hope, the american War of independence, the pre-revolution, the enlightenment, the third estate, the cahiers de doleances, the nobility, the first estate, town and country, philippe egalite, the peasantry, the seigneurial system, elections to the estates general, the luxury trades, fads and fashions, the court and politics. CHAPTER TWO:1789 The great fear the royal family, censorship, paris in the 18th century, the tennis court oath and the seance royale mirabeau 9- hunger, necker 10- the bastille, the conquerors of the bastille, the nation, the king and the law. 16- The Great fear: the peasant revolution. The night of 4 august 17- the rigts of man, versailes 19- Bailly. CHAPTER THREE: 1789-1791 20- Remaking france 24- the new departments 27- the one revolution looks at another 29- the guillotine 31- the jacobin clubs 33- Paper money, secrest gunds 34- Edmund burke 36- The hero of two worlds 38- fete de la federation 41- freemasons 43- The civil constitution of the clergy 45- Talleyrand: renegade or reformer? 46- Marie-Antoinette 49- Fersen: une liaison dangereuse?, the flight to varennes, the champ-de-mars- massacre 51- The constitution of 1791 CHAPTER FOUR: 1791-1792 55the war on tyranny 60- Counter-revolution at coblenz 62- The refracotry clergy