Twelve who ruled : the year of the Terror in the French Revolution / by R.R. Palmer ; with a new foreword by Isser Woloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palmer, R. R. (Robert Roswell), 1909-2002.

Series:

Princeton classic editions

A Princeton classic edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.

France.

History.

France. Convention nationale. Comité de salut public.

Revolutionaries--France--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 415 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First Princeton Classic edition.

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2005.

Summary:

In its fifth year (1793-1794), the French Revolution faced a multifaceted crisis that threatened to overwhelm the Republic. In response, the government instituted a revolutionary dictatorship and a "reign of terror," with a Committee of Public Safety at its head. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their tumultuous struggles in Paris and their repressive missions in the provinces. A new foreword by Isser Woloch explains why this book has been, and deserves to remain, an enduring classic in French revolutionary studies.

Contents:

I Twelve Terrorists to Be 3

II The Fifth Summer of the Revolution 22

III Organizing the Terror 44

IV The Beginning of Victory 78

V The "Foreign Plot" and 14 Frimaire 108

VI Republic in Miniature 130

VII Doom At Lyons 153

VIII The Missions to Alsace 177

IX The Missions to Brittany 202

X Dictated Economy 225

XI Finding the Narrow Way 254

XII Ventose 280

XIII The Culmination 305

XIV The Rush Upon Europe 335

XV The Fall 361.

Notes:

Originally published with the subtitle: The Committee of Public Safety during the Terror. Princeton university press, 1941.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-402) and index.

ISBN:

0691121877

OCLC:

58604812