Histoire de la Révolution Française

Volume 12 of this 1847–62 work describes the 'White Terror' and the end of the National Convention in 1795.

Louis Blanc (Author)

9781108035170, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2011

650 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.6 cm, 0.82 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 12, first published in 1862, focuses on the period of the 'White Terror', during which royalist forces attacked Jacobins and their suspected allies. It covers the social implications of the Revolution, and concludes with the end of the National Convention, which had governed France between 1792 and 1795.

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Livre Quatorzième: 1. La coalition dissoute
2. Terreur blanche
3. Chute des Assignats
4. Famine
5. Insurrection de la faim
6. Fureurs de la contre-révolution
Livre Quinzième: 1. Les émigreés
2. Les 'agents de Paris'
3. Crimes des chouans
4. Mystères du Temple
5. Les émigrés à Quiberon
6. Reprise d'armes en Vendée
Livre Seizième: 1. Les armées pendant la réaction
2. Lutte entre les Thermidoriens et les royalistes
3. Victoire des Thermidoriens sur les royalistes
4. Fin de la Convention
Errata.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]