The French Revolution
A History by Thomas Carlyle

This book contains a series of extracts from Thomas Carlyle's influential three-volume work The French Revolution: A History (1837).

Thomas Carlyle (Author), A. H. R. Ball (Edited by)

9781107652972, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 July 2014

272 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.6 cm, 0.3 kg

Originally published in 1930, this book contains a series of extracts from Thomas Carlyle's influential three-volume work The French Revolution: A History (1837). The text was compiled with the intention of providing a 'representation both of Carlyle's delineation of the Revolution, and of his poetic scheme of history'. Continuity of narrative is ensured through the use of short explanatory link passages which are inserted between extracts. A detailed editorial introduction is also included, with information on the text, Carlyle's life and his conception of history. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Carlyle's writings and perspectives on the French Revolution.

Preface
Introduction
1. Death of Louis XV
2. The new age
3. The notables
4. The states-general
5. The third estate
6. To arms!
7. Fall of the Bastille
8. Revolution
9. The Menads
10. The King at Paris
11. The army
12. The clubs
13. Mirabeau
14. Flight of the King
15. The constitution
16. Europe
17. The Jacobins
18. The Marseilleise
19. The Swiss
20. The commune
21. The September massacres
22. The cannonade of Valmy
23. Execution of Louis XVI
24. Girondins and mountain
25. The committees
26. The new calendar
27. Death of Marat
28. Marie-Antoinette
29. The reign of terror
30. The feast of reason
31. The new Paris
32. Danton, no weakness
33. Feast of the être suprême
34. Robespierre
35. Decline of revolution
36. The army
37. The whiff of grapeshot
38. Finis
Appendixes
Index of proper names
Glossary.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]