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