CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. Science and Politics under the Constituent Assembly
1. Science and Politics in 1789
2. Bailly and the Constituent Assembly
4. Vicq d’Azyr and the Reform of Medicine
5. Condorcet and Truth in Politics
6. Condorcet, Bailly, and the Governance of Paris
8. Varennes and the Champ-de-Mars
CHAPTER II. Education, Science, and Politics
1. Scientists in the Legislative Assembly
2. The Condorcet Plan for National Education
3. Talleyrand’s Educational Proposal
4. The Educational Legacy of the Old Regime
CHAPTER III. The Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Science: Rise and Fall
1. Natural History and Theoretical Science
2. The Museum d’Histoire Naturelle
3. The Academy of Science in the Revolutionary Climate
5. The Last Year of the Academy
CHAPTER V. Science and the Terror
3. The Mobilization of Scientists
6. Natural History and Conquest
7. Effects of Wartime: Science and the State
CHAPTER VII. Thermidorean Convention and Directory
1. Institutionalization of French Science, 1794–1804
2. Institut de France, Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, and Bureau des Longitudes
3. Completion of the Metric System
4. The École Normale de l’an III
6. The École de Santé and Clinical Medicine
CHAPTER VIII. Bonaparte and the Scientific Community
3. The Idéologues and 18 Brumaire