The French Revolution - Volume 3
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1. THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 42. PREFACE.3. CHAPTER I. JACOBIN GOVERNMENT I. The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin.4. II. Jacobin Dissimulation.5. III. Primary Assemblies6. IV. The Delegates reach Paris7. V. Fête of August 10th8. VI. The Mountain.9. VII. Extent and Manifesto of the departmental insurrection10. VIII. The Reasons for the Terror.11. IX. Destruction of Rebel Cities12. X. Destruction of the Girondin party13. XI. Institutions of the Revolutionary Government14. CHAPTER I. THE JACOBIN PARTY I. The Doctrine.15. II. A Communist State.16. III. The object of the State is the regeneration of man.17. IV. Two distortions of the natural man.18. V. Equality and Inequality.19. VI. Conditions requisite for making a citizen.20. VII. Socialist projects.21. VIII. Indoctrination of mind and intellect.22. CHAPTER II. REACTIONARY CONCEPT OF THE STATE. I. Reactionary concept of the State.23. II. Changed minds.24. III. Origin and nature of the modern State.25. IV. The state is tempted to encroach.26. V. Direct common interest.27. VI. Indirect common interest.28. VII. Fabrication of social instruments.29. VIII. Comparison between despotisms.30. CHAPTER I. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE JACOBIN LEADERS. I. Marat.31. II. Danton.32. III. Robespierre.33. CHAPTER II. THE RULERS OF THE COUNTRY.34. I. The Convention.35. II. Its participation in crime.36. III. The Committee of Public Safety.37. IV. The Statesmen.38. V. Official Jacobin organs.39. VI. Commissars of the Revolution.40. VII. Brutal Instincts.41. IX. Vice.42. CHAPTER III. THE RULERS. (continued). I. The Central Government Administration.43. II. Subaltern Jacobins.44. III. A Revolutionary Committee.45. IV. Provincial Administration.46. V. Jacobins sent to the Provinces.47. VI. Quality of staff thus formed.48. VII. The Armed Forces.49. VII. The Armed Forces. (continued 2)50. CHAPTER I. THE OPPRESSED. I. Revolutionary Destruction.51. II. The Value of Notables in Society.52. III. The three classes of Notables.53. IV. The Clergy.54. V. The Bourgeoisie.55. VI. The Demi-notables.56. VII. Principle of socialist Equality.57. VIII. Rigor against the Upper Classes.58. IX. The Jacobin Citizen Robot.59. X. The Governors and the Governed.60. CHAPTER II. FOOD AND PROVISIONS. I. Economical Complexity of Food Chain.61. II. Conditions in 1793. A Lesson in Market Economics.62. III. Privation.63. IV. Hunger.64. V. Revolutionary Remedies.65. VI. Relaxation.66. VII. Misery at Paris.67. VII. Misery at Paris. (continued 2)68. CHAPTER I. THE CONVENTION. I. The Convention.69. II. Re-election of the Two-thirds.70. III. A Directory of Regicides.71. IV. Public Opinon.72. VI. The Directory.73. VII. Enforcement of Pure Jacobinism.74. VIII. Propaganda and Foreign Conquests.75. IX. National Disgust.76. X. Contrast between Civil and Military France.