Front cover
Half title
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Introduction
Chronology
List of Illustrations
Maps
Part One: From Old Regime to Revolution (1610–1789)
Chapter 1: The Prerevolution
1. Charles Loyseau, A Treatise on Orders (1610)
2. The Paris Parlement, Remonstrance Concerning the Third Twentieth Tax (July 11–12, 1782)
3. Jacques Necker, Preface to Account to the King (1781)
4. Emilie Du Châtelet, Examinations of the Bible (c. 1730s)
5. Abbé Raynal, A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies (1770)
6. Isabelle de Charrière, The Nobleman (1763)
7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men (1755)
8. Louis Sébastien Mercier, Paris Scenes (1782–1788)
Chapter 2: From Estates General toNational Assembly
9. Letter from the King for the Convocation of the Estates General at Versailles (January 24, 1789)
10. Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate? (January 1789)
11. Cahiers de Doléances
A. Cahier of the Parish of St. Germain d’Airan, Written This First Day of March 1789, According to the King’s Wishes
B. List of Grievances for the Town of Vire (February 26, 1789)
12. The Declaration of the National Assembly(June 17, 1789)8
13. The Tennis Court Oath (June 20, 1789)
Chapter 3: The Emergence of Popular Revolution
14. Rural Unrest
A. Letter from the Commissioners of the Estates of Dauphiné to the Committee of Twelve (July 31, 1789)
B. Letter from La Breaudière of Segondigny (Poitou) to the Committee of Twelve (July 24, 1789)
15. M. the Duc d’ Aiguillon, Motion Concerning Individual Privileges and Feudal and Seigneurial Rights (August 4, 1789)
16. The Debate over the King’s Veto
A. Abbé Henri Grégoire, Opinion . . . on the Royal Veto, at the Session of the National Assembly (September 4, 1789)
B. Jean-Joseph Mounier, Speech on the Royal Sanction (September 5, 1789)
17. Women’s March to Versailles
A. The Woman Cheret, The Event of Paris and Versailles, by One of the Ladies Who Had the Honor to Be in the Deputation to the General Assembly (1789)
B. Testimony of Master Jean-Louis Brousse des Faucherets (1790)
Part Two: From Liberal to Republican Revolution (1789–1792)
Chapter 4: Legislating an Enlightened Regime
18. National Assembly, Debate on Religious Freedom (August 23, 1789)
19. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (August 26, 1789)
20. Petition by the Jews Settled in France to the National Assembly Concerning the Postponement of December 24, 1789 (January 28, 1790)
21. Demands for Equal Rights by Free People of Color
A. Society of American Colonists, Petition to the National Assembly (Paris, 1789)
B. Vincent Ogé, Petition to the Assembly of the North Province (October 29, 1790)
22. The National Assembly Decrees the Enfranchisement of Free Men of Color (May 15, 1791)
23. Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman (September 14, 1791)
24. Maximilien Robespierre, On the Abolition of the Death Penalty (May 30, 1791)
25. Discussion of the Le Chapelier Law (June 13, 1791)
26. Insurrection in Saint-Domingue
A. Report of the Limbé Town Council on What Happened in This District at the Time of the Slave Insurrection (August 1791)
B. Imprisoned Insurgents, Letter to Governor Blanchelande, Camp Gallifet (September 24, 1791)
27. Pierre François Gossin, Report and Decree on the Transfer of Voltaire’s Remains to Sainte-Geneviève (March 1791)
28. National Assembly, Constitution of 1791
Chapter 5: Revolution in the Countryside
29. The Continuing Contest over Seigneurial Rights
A. Petition from Inhabitants of the Somme to the National Assembly Concerning Seigneurial Rights and Taxes (Received by the National Assembly on December 31, 1789)
B. Letter from the Community of Marnay (Haute Saône) to the National Assembly Concerning Rights to Waterways (April 15, 1790)
30. Petition from the Residents of Roscoff (Finistère) to the National Assembly Concerning the High Price of Bread (January 1790)
31. Remarks on the Dialect and Mores of the People of the Countryside in the Department of Lot-et-Garonne, Sent by the Society of Friends of the Constitution of Agen to the Abbé Grégoire (1791)
Chapter 6: New Tensions
32. The Municipal Council Versus the Society of Friends of the Constitution of Tours (November 1790)
33. The Debate over the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
A. Warning from Monsieur the Archbishop of Vienne, to the Secular and Regular Clergy, and to the Faithful of His Diocese (November 11, 1790)
B. Minutes of the Swearing of the Oath by Jean-Baptiste Petitjean, Curé of Epineuil, Department of the Cher (January 1791)
34. Declaration of the King Addressed to All the French about His Flight from Paris (June 21, 1791)
35. Marie Antoinette, Letter to Leopold II (September 8, 1791)
36. Anonymous, The Queen’s Farewells to Her Darlings of Both Sexes (1792)
Chapter 7: War and a New Revolution
37. Manon Roland on the Meetings of the Girondins in Her Home (1793)
38. The Debate over a Declaration of War
A. Maximilien Robespierre, Discourse on War Delivered to the Jacobin Club (January 2 and 11, 1792)
B. Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Third Discourse on the Necessity of War, Delivered to the Jacobin Club (January 20, 1792)
39. The “Marseillaise” (August 1792)
40. The Brunswick Manifesto (July 25, 1792)
41. Deposing the King
A. Petition from the Paris Sections to the National Assembly Demanding the Suspension of the King (August 3, 1792)
B. Decree of the National Assembly for Suspending the King (August 10, 1792)
42. The September Massacres (September 1792)
43. Speeches on the Trial of the King
A. Speech by Charles-François-Gabriel Morrison (November 13, 1792)
B. Speech by the Marquis de Condorcet (December 3, 1792)
Part Three: The Republican Crisis (1793–1795)
Chapter 8: Popular Movements Beyondthe Convention
44. Definitions of the Sans-Culotte, the Moderate, and the Aristocrat (April–May 1793)
A. Response to the Impertinent Question, But What Is a Sans-Culotte?
B. Definition of the Moderate, the Feuillant, the Aristocrat (In Short, That Class of Citizens from Whom Should Be Taken the Million That Must Be Raised from throughout the Republic)
45. Address by Section Sans-Culotte to the National Convention (September 2, 1793)
46. Jean-Paul Marat, The People’s Friend (June 23, 1793)
47. Jacques-René Hébert, Father Duchesne
48. Revolutionary Women in Paris
A. Petition from the Revolutionary Republican Women to the National Convention on the Leadership of the Armies and the Law of Suspects (August 1793)
B. Revolutionary Republican Women in a Showdown with the Market Women (November 1793)
49. Emancipation in Saint-Domingue
A. Georges Biassou, Jean-François Papillon, and Gabriel Belair, Letter from the Leaders of the Insurgent Blacks to the General Assembly, National Commissioners, and Citizens of the French Part of Saint-Domingue (July 1792)
B. Toussaint Louverture, Letter (August 25, 1793)
C. Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, The Emancipation Proclamation of August 29, 1793
D. Jean-Baptiste Belley, The Truth about the Colonists or the Plan of the Club Massiac (Paris, n.d.)
50. Creole of Saint-Domingue, My Odyssey: Experiences of a Young Refugee from Two Revolutions (1793)
51. Ronchet, Address from the Provisional Municipality to the National Convention, in the Name of Liberty, Equality, and the One and Indivisible Republic (August 2, 1793)
52. The Vendée War
A. Counter-Revolutionary Activism
B. Revolutionary Repression
Chapter 9: Legislating the Terror
53. Constitution of the Year I (June 24, 1793)
54. Instituting the Terror (September 5, 1793)
55. Law on Suspects (September 17, 1793)
56. The National Convention Outlaws Women’s Clubs and Popular Societies (October 30, 1793)
57. Georges-Jacques Danton, “Concerning Arbitrary Measures and Arrests” (January 23, 1794)
58. Bertrand Barère, On Behalf of the Committee of Public Safety, Report to the National Convention on the Maximum (February 22, 1794)
59. Law of 22 Prairial Year II (June 10, 1794)
Chapter 10: Revolution in Society and Culture
60. Anonymous, Reflections of a Good Citizen in Favor of Divorce (1789?)
61. Decree Regulating Divorce (September 20, 1792)
62. Citizen Lebrun, Republican Ode to the French People on the Supreme Being (October–November 1793)
63. Pierre-Laurent Monestier, Decree Concerning Fanatical Priests or Troublemakers, and the Celebration of the Decades (1794)
64. Maximilien Robespierre, Report on the Principles of Political Morality That Should Guide the National Convention in the Domestic Administration of the Republic (February 5, 1794)
65. Louis-Antoine-Léon de Saint-Just, Report in the Name of the Committees of Public Safety and General Security Concerning Prisoners, Presented to the National Convention on 8 Ventôse Year II (February 26, 1794)
Chapter 11: The Thermidorian Reaction
66. Jean-Lambert Tallien, On the System of Terror (August 28, 1794)
67. Pierre Gaveaux and Jean-Marie Souriguère, “The Alarm of the People” (January 1795)
68. The Prairial Uprising (May 20–23, 1795)
69. Louis XVIII, Declaration of Verona (June 24, 1795)
Part Four: Directory and Consulate (1795–1803)
Chapter 12: Orchestrating Politics from Above
70. A New Constitution
A. François Antoine Boissy d’Anglas, Preliminary Discourse to the Draft of the French Republican Constitution (June 23, 1795)
B. Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Citizens (August 22, 1795)
71. Law against Provoking the Dissolution of Government (April 1796)
72. Council of Five Hundred Decrees the Closure of All Political Clubs (July 24–25, 1797)
73. Proclamation of the Directory to the French People (September 14, 1797)
74. The Directory’s Electoral Interference
A. Address from the Executive Directory Concerning Elections (March 22, 1798)
B. The Executive Directory’s Proclamation on Elections (March 29, 1798)
Chapter 13: Dissenters and Opponents
75. Gracchus Babeuf, “The Plebeians’ Manifesto” (November 30, 1795)
76. Marc-Antoine Jullien, Some Advice to the Cisalpine Patriots (1797?)
77. Old Enemies
A. A Chouan in Caen (September 4, 1797)
B. A Jacobin in Lyon (March 11, 1797)
78. Anonymous, On the True Cause of the Revolution (1797)
79. Public Opinion in Paris (1796–1799)
Chapter 14: Cultural Life
80. The Revival of Religious Practice
A. Letter from the Commissioner in Krignac (Morbihan) Concerning Local Religious Practices (February 27, 1797)
B. Letter from the Commissioner in Maguy (Calvados) Concerning Religious Processions (July 11, 1797)
81. Constance de Salm, “Epistles for Sophie: I, The Dangers of Unfortunate Choice” (c. 1801)
Chapter 15: Napoleon Closes the Revolution
82. Napoleon Bonaparte, “Proclamation to the French Nation” (November 10, 1799)
83. The Imperial Religious Settlement
A. Concordat with the Papacy (July 1801)
B. Napoleon’s Proclamation to the French on the Religious Settlement (April 1802)
84. The French Civil Code (1803–1804)
85. Napoleon’s Restoration of Slavery in the Caribbean
A. Napoleon Bonaparte, Views on Slave Emancipation, 1800
B. Charles Leclerc, Commander in Chief of the Army of Saint-Domingue, Letters (1802)
C. Toussaint Louverture, Letters and Memoir (1802)
86. The Making of an Independent Haiti
A. Toussaint Louverture, Constitution of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue (July 1801)
B. Toussaint Louverture, Proclamation (November 25, 1801)
C. Louis Boisrond Tonnerre, The Declaration of Independence (January 1, 1804)
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
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