Histoire de la Révolution Française

Volume 8 of this 1847–62 work focuses on the political situation after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793.

Louis Blanc (Author)

9781108035132, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2011

530 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.67 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 8, first published in 1856, opens with the execution of Louis XVI in 1793. It focuses on the political situation that year, including the beginning of the war in the Vendée in March 1793, and the rise and fall of the Girondins.

9. Débat sur l'appel au peuple
10. Exécution de Louis XVI
Livre Neuvième: 1. Pitt et la Convention
2. Les faux tribuns
3. Soulèvement de La Vendée
4. Trahison de Dumouriez
5. Passions et idées
6. Triomphe de Marat
7. Les Girondins et La Vendée
8. Comité des Douze
9. Les Girondins à Lyon
10. Les Douze renversés
11. Chute des Girondins
12. Essais de guerre civile.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]