Histoire de la Révolution Française

Volume 4 of this 1847–62 work describes the administrative reorganisation of France, including the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

Louis Blanc (Author)

9781108035095, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2011

468 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.59 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 4, first published in 1852, focuses on the administrative reorganisation of France from 1790. It includes details on the new status of the clergy, who had been turned into employees of the state by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy passed on 12 July 1790.

Livre Quatrième: 1. Aspect de l'Europe
2. Les chateaux brulent
3. Marat bravant Le Châtelet
4. Serment civique
5. Le livre rouge
6. Tableau des finances. Les assignats
7. Fureurs des prêtres
8. Les complots
9. Organisation de la justice
10. Une page de la vie de Mirabeau
11. Les Calvinistes à Nîmes
12. Les Jansénistes dans l'Assemblée
13. Un roi sans nobles
14. Mirabeau devant la reine
15. Vision sublime de l'avenir
Livre Cinquième: 1. La contre-révolution implacable
Documents historiques.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]