Twelve who ruled : the year of the Terror in the French Revolution

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSIC EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE BICENTENNIAL EDITION -- I. TWELVE TERRORISTS TO BE -- II. THE FIFTH SUMMER OF THE REVOLUTION -- III. ORGANIZING THE TERROR -- IV. THE BEGINNING OF VICTORY -- V. THE "FOREIGN PLOT" AND 14 FRIMAIRE -- VI. REPUBLIC IN MINIATURE -- VII. DOOM AT LYONS -- VIII. THE MISSIONS TO ALSACE -- IX. THE MISSIONS TO BRITTANY -- X. DICTATED ECONOMY -- XI. FINDING THE NARROW WAY -- XII. VENTÔSE -- XIII. THE CULMINATION -- XIV. THE RUSH UPON EUROPE -- XV. THE FALL -- EPILOGUE.;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. "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 addressing 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."-- Provided by publisher "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 addressing 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."--Jacket Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSIC EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE BICENTENNIAL EDITION -- I. TWELVE TERRORISTS TO BE -- II. THE FIFTH SUMMER OF THE REVOLUTION -- III. ORGANIZING THE TERROR -- IV. THE BEGINNING OF VICTORY -- V. THE "FOREIGN PLOT" AND 14 FRIMAIRE -- VI. REPUBLIC IN MINIATURE -- VII. DOOM AT LYONS -- VIII. THE MISSIONS TO ALSACE -- IX. THE MISSIONS TO BRITTANY -- X. DICTATED ECONOMY -- XI. FINDING THE NARROW WAY -- XII. VENTÔSE -- XIII. THE CULMINATION -- XIV. THE RUSH UPON EUROPE -- XV. THE FALL -- EPILOGUE. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- INDEX. The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. 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 foreword by Isser Woloch explains why this book remains an enduring classic in French revolutionary studies. 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. [In this volume, the author's] narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their tumultuous struggles in Paris and their repressive missions in the provinces.-Back cover ANYONE who had business with the government of the Reign of Terror directed his steps to the Tuileries, an old palace of the kings of France on the right bank of the Seine between the Louvre and the Tuileries Gardens, in which then as now children played and chestnut tress blossomed in April.