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The French Revolution - Volume 3 — Hippolyte Taine

The French Revolution - Volume 3

Hippolyte Taine

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 682 pages

The third volume of Hippolyte Taine's history of the French Revolution examines the Jacobin movement, its doctrine, its vision of the state, and its leaders such as Marat, Danton, and Robespierre. It offers a historical analysis of revolutionary political thought and government during the Revolution.

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Contents

  1. THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 4
  2. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, VOLUME 3. by Hippolyte A. Taine
  3. PREFACE.
  4. BOOK FIRST. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT.
  5. CHAPTER I. JACOBIN GOVERNMENT
  6. I. The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin.
  7. II. Jacobin Dissimulation.
  8. III. Primary Assemblies
  9. IV. The Delegates reach Paris
  10. V. Fête of August 10th
  11. VI. The Mountain.
  12. VII. Extent and Manifesto of the departmental insurrection
  13. VIII. The Reasons for the Terror.
  14. IX. Destruction of Rebel Cities
  15. X. Destruction of the Girondin party
  16. XI. Institutions of the Revolutionary Government
  17. BOOK SECOND. THE JACOBIN PROGRAM.
  18. CHAPTER I. THE JACOBIN PARTY
  19. I. The Doctrine.
  20. II. A Communist State.
  21. III. The object of the State is the regeneration of man.
  22. IV. Two distortions of the natural man.
  23. V. Equality and Inequality.
  24. VI. Conditions requisite for making a citizen.
  25. VII. Socialist projects.
  26. VIII. Indoctrination of mind and intellect.
  27. CHAPTER II. REACTIONARY CONCEPT OF THE STATE.
  28. I. Reactionary concept of the State.
  29. II. Changed minds.
  30. III. Origin and nature of the modern State.

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