Title History of the French Revolution / Jules Michelet ; translated by Charles Cooks ; edited and with an intod. by Gordon Wright

Published Chicago : University Press, [1967]

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Description xxi, 476 pages ; 21 cm Series Classic European historians Classic European historians. Contents First Part: On the religion of the Middle Ages -- Second Part: On the Old Monarchy -- Book I (April to July, 1789) -- Elections of 1789 -- Opening of the estates -- general -- National Assembly -- Oath at the tennis court -- Movement of Paris -- Insurrection of Paris -- The taking of the Bastille, July 14th, 1789 -- Book II (July 14 to October 6, 1789) -- The hollow truce -- Popular judgments -- France in arms -- The rights of man -- The clergy and the people -- The veto -- The press -- The people go to fetch the king, October 5th, 1789 -- The king brought back to Paris -- Book III (October 6, 1789 to July 14, 1790) -- Unanimity to revive the kingly power (October, 1789) -- burst of fraternal enthusiasm -- enthusiastic transport of brotherhood (October to July) -- Resistance -- the clergy (October to November 1789) -- Resistance -- the clergy -- the Parlements -- the provincial estates -- Resistance -- Parlements -- movement of the Federations -- Resistance -- the Queen and Austria (October to February) -- Continuation -- the Queen and Austria -- the Queen and Mirabeau -- the Army (March to May, 1790) -- A religious struggle -- the passions of Louis XVI -- Religious struggle -- success of the Counter-Revolution (May, 1790) -- A religious struggle -- the Counter-Revolution quelled in the South (June, 1790) -- The New Principle -- spontaneous organization of France (July 1789 to July 1790) -- The new religion -- Federations (July 1789 to July 1790) -- The new religion -- General Federation (July 14, 1790) Summary Interpretation of events in Paris during 1789 and 1790 Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051319 -- Causes and character France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115098 France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051319 Author Wright, Gordon, 1912-2000. LC no. 67015315

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