Twelve Who Ruled : : The Year of Terror in the French Revolution / / R. R. Palmer.

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 narr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Princeton Classics ; 99
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.) :; 10 halftones. 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • FOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSIC EDITION
  • PREFACE TO THE BICENTENNIAL EDITION
  • THE TWELVE
  • CHAPTER I. Twelve Terrorists to Be
  • CHAPTER II. The Fifth Summer of the Revolution
  • CHAPTE R III. Organizing the Terror
  • CHAPTE R IV. The beginning of Victory
  • CHAPTER V. The "Foreign 'Plot" and 14 Frimaire
  • CHAPTER VI. Republic in Miniature
  • CHAPTER VII. Doom at Lyons
  • CHAPTER VIII. The Missions to Alsace
  • CHAPTER IX. The Missions to Brittany
  • CHAPTER X. Dictated Economy
  • CHAPTER XI. Finding the farrow Way
  • CHAPTER XII. Ventose
  • CHAPTER. XIII The Culmination
  • CHAPTER XIV. The Rush upon Europe
  • CHAPTER XV. The Fall
  • EPILOGUE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
  • INDEX