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THE COMING OF THE TERROR IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution Timothy Tackett The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, En gland 2015 Copyright © 2015 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Tackett, Timothy, 1945– Th e coming of the terror in the French Revolution / Timothy Tackett. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 674- 73655- 9 (alk. paper) 1. France— History—Reign of Terror, 1793– 1794. 2. France— History—Revolution, 1789– 1799. I. Title. DC183.T26 2015 944.04—dc23 2014023992 Contents List of Illustrations vii List of Maps ix Introduction: Th e Revolutionary Pro cess 1 1 Th e Revolutionaries and Th eir World in 1789 13 2 Th e Spirit of ’89 39 3 Th e Breakdown of Authority 70 4 Th e Menace of Counterrevolution 96 5 Between Hope and Fear 121 6 Th e Factionalization of France 142 7 Fall of the Monarchy 172 8 Th e First Terror 192 9 Th e Convention and the Trial of the King 217 10 Th e Crisis of ’93 245 11 Revolution and Terror until Victory 280 12 Th e Year II and the Great Terror 312 Conclusion: Becoming a Terrorist 340 Abbreviations 351 Notes 353 Sources and Bibliography 419 Ac know ledg ments 447 Index 449 Illustrations Th e Tennis Court Oath 50 Attack on the Bastille 56 Market women leave Paris en route to Versailles 67 Federation Ball 93 Confrontation between Catholics and Protestants in Montauban 106 Th e king’s fl ight halted by the national guard in Varennes 115 Maximilien Robespierre 156 Jacques-Pierre Brissot 157 Storming of the Tuileries Palace 189 A pro-Montagnard image of the people entering the Legislative Assembly 194 Memorial ser vice for the patriots killed in the attack on the Tuileries 201 Enrollment of volunteers in Paris 218 Trial of Louis XVI 237 Th e representative on mission, Jean-Baptiste Milhaud 266 A surveillance committee during the Terror 269 Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday 290 Brissot and the Girondins sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal 310 Festival of the Supreme Being 318 Nine emigrants are guillotined after they had returned to France 331 9 Th ermidor Year II in the Convention 337 Maps France in 1789 14 Revolutionary France in 1791 15 Paris in 1792 143
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