Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Preface: Why a New History of the French Revolution?

1:  Two French Lives in the Old Regime

2:  The Monarchy, the Philosophes, and the Public

3:  The Monarchy Adrift, 1774–1787

4:  “Everything Must Change”: The Assembly of Notables and the Crisis of 1787–1788

5:  A Nation Aroused, June 1788–May 1789

6:  Revolution in a Tennis Court: From the Estates General to the National Assembly, May–July 1789

7:  A People’s Revolution, July–August 1789

8:  From the “Great Fear” to the Declaration of Rights, August 1789

9:  Constitution-Making and Conflict, September–December 1789

10:  A New World Divided, January 1790–June 1791

11:  A Runaway King and a Constitutional Crisis, June–September 1791

12:  A Second Revolution, October 1791–August 1792

13:  A Republic Born in Crisis, August 1792–May 1793

14:  The Revolution on the Brink, June–December 1793

15:  The Arc of Terror, January–July 1794

16:  The Republic’s New Start, July 1794–October 1795

17:  The Republic in Question, October 1795–September 1797

18:  From Fructidor to Brumaire, September 1797–November 1799

19:  The Slow Death of the Republic, 1799–1804

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

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