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The French Revolution - Volume 3

Hippolyte Taine

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  • 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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THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY
FRANCE, VOLUME 4
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, VOLUME 3.
by Hippolyte A. Taine
Text Transcriber's Note: The numbering of Volumes, Books,
Chapters
and Sections are as in the French not the American edition.
Annotations by the transcriber are initialled SR.
Svend Rom, April 2000.
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David Widger, June 2008
BOOK SECOND. THE JACOBIN PROGRAM.
CHAPTER I. THE JACOBIN PARTY

I. The Doctrine.
II. A Communist State.
III. The object of the State is the
regeneration of man.
IV. Two distortions of the natural
man.
V. Equality and Inequality.
VI. Conditions requisite for making a
citizen.
VII. Socialist projects.
VIII.
Indoctrination
of
mind
and
intellect.
CHAPTER II. REACTIONARY CONCEPT OF THE STATE.
I. Reactionary concept of the State.
II. Changed minds.
III. Origin and nature of the modern
State.
IV. The state is tempted to encroach.
V. Direct common interest.
VI. Indirect common interest.
VII.
Fabrication
of
social
instruments.
VIII. Comparison between despotisms.
BOOK THIRD. THE MEN IN POWER.
CHAPTER I. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE JACOBIN LEADERS.
I. Marat.
II. Danton.
III. Robespierre.
CHAPTER II. THE RULERS OF THE COUNTRY.
I. The Convention.
II. Its participation in crime.
III. The Committee of Public Safety.
IV. The Statesmen.
V. Official Jacobin organs.
VI. Commissars of the Revolution.
VII. Brutal Instincts.
IX. Vice.
CHAPTER III. THE RULERS. (continued).
I.
The
Central
Government
Administration.
II. Subaltern Jacobins.

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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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