Histoire de la Révolution Française

Volume 2 of this monumental 1847–62 work focuses on 1789, from the Estates-General to the storming of the Bastille.

Louis Blanc (Author)

9781108035071, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2011

506 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.64 kg

Louis Blanc (1811–82) was a French historian and politician whose writings had a considerable influence on the development of French socialism. In his famous Organisation du travail (1839) he called for social reform by action of the State, an unusual position at the time. As a member of the provisional government established after the 1848 Revolution, he campaigned for workers' rights, advocating the creation of cooperative workshops. His twelve-volume Histoire de la Révolution Française (1847–62), most of which he wrote while in exile in England, combines years of thorough research with Blanc's characteristic socialist and republican enthusiasm. Volume 2, published in 1847, opens with an overview of French society under Louis XVI. It shows how the financial crisis led to popular unrest, and focuses on the main events of the year 1789, from the Estates-General to the storming of the Bastille and the abolition of feudalism.

Deux révolutions
Livre Premier: 1. Tableau de la cour de France
2. Premier ministère de Necker
3. Les Révolutionnaires mystiques
4. Affaire du Collier
5. Apparition du déficit
6. Fatalité des états généraux
7. Mouvement des élections
8. L'Assemblée Nationale
9. Appel la force
10. Paris soulevé
11. Prise de la Bastille
12. Louis XVI, roi de la bourgeoisie
13. Première émigration
14. Émotion de la France
15. Destruction de la féodalité.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]