THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

London: Arrow Books - A Grey Arrow, 1959. Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 192 pp. Grey Arrow G16. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the front cover and a crease on the spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: I: The ANCIENT REGIME: Introduction; Faulty Finance; Administrative Complexity; Agrarian Distress; II: THE REVOLT OF THE NOBILITY - 1787 - 1788: Calonne's Plans for Radical Reform; The Revolt of the Notables; The Revolt of the Parlements; The Revolt of the Provinces; III: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONFLICTS ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION - 1788 - 1789: Necker's Second Ministry and the Recall of the Parlement; The Formation of the Partiotic Party; Pamphlet Warfare and the Attack on Privilege; Necker and the Convocation of the States General; The Elections to the States General; IV: THE REVOLUTION OF THE LAWYERS - 5th May - 27th June 1789: The Opening of the States General; The Conflict of the Orders - 6th May - 9th June 1789; The Formation of the National Assembly - 10th - 17th June; The Failure of Counter-Revolution - 18th - 27th June; V: THE REVOLT OF THE MASSES AND THE FALL OF THE ANCIEN REGIME: The Revolt of Paris and the Fall of the Bastille; The Revolt of the Provinces and the Great Fear; The Fall of the Ancien Regime - 4th - 11th August 1789; The Declaration of Rights (26th August, 1789; The Schism in the Patriotic Party and the October Days; VI: THE WORK OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY AND THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES: The Constituent Assembly and Constructive Reform; Mirabeau and the Monarchy - October 1789 - April 1791; The Civil Constitution of the Clergy and Religious Schism; The Flight to Varennes - 21st June 1791; The Massacre of the Champ de Mars (17th July, 1791); The Feuillants and Constitutional Revision; VII: THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, WAR AND THE LAST DAYS OF THE MONARCHY: The Political Consequences of the Constitution of 1791; Political Groupings in the Legislative Assembly; The Origins of the War of 1792; The Last Days of the Monarchy; VIII: FROM THE FALL OF THE MONARCHY TO THE EXTENSION OF THE WAR WITH EUROPE: The Dethronement of Louis XVI and Its Results; The September Massacres; The Convention; Girondina and Montagnards; The King's Trial and Execution; War with Europe; IX: THE RISE OF REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT AND THE CRISIS OF NATIONAL DEFENCE: Military and Economic Difficulties - January March 1793; Sectional Movements in Paris (February-April, 1793); The Fall of the Gironde (5th April-2nd June, 1793); The Federalist Revolt and the Collapse of the First Committee of Public Safety - May - July; The Crisis of National Defence and the Rise of Hebertism - July - August 1793; Terror the Order of the Day - September 1793; X: THE TERROR, THE FACTIONS, AND THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE: The Terror; The Dantonists and the Policy of Clemency; The Fall of the Factions; The Ascendancy and Fall of Robespierre - 13th April - 27th July 1794; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; and an Index..