The French Revolution A History

by Carlyle, Thomas; Rosenberg, John D.

• ISBN13: 9780375760228
• ISBN10: 0375760229
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-14
• Publisher: Modern Library

Summary

The book that established Thomas Carlyle's reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on the subject. It combines a shrewd insight into character, a vivid realization of the picturesque, and a singular ability to bring the past to blazing life, making it a reading experience as thrilling as any novel. As John D. Rosenberg observes in his Introduction,The French Revolutionis "one of the grand poems of [Carlyle's] century, yet its poetry consists in being everywhere scrupulously rooted in historical fact." This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, complete and unabridged, is unavailable anywhere else.

Author Biography

<b>John D. Rosenberg</b> is the William Peterfield Trent Professor of English at Columbia University, where he teaches Victorian literature and has chaired the undergraduate program in literature humanities. He is the author of<i> The Darkening Glass: A Portrait of Ruskin’s Genius; The Fall of Camelot: A Study of Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King”;</i> and <i>Carlyle and the Burden of History</i>.

Table of Contents

Biographical Note	v
Introduction	xv
John D. Rosenberg
The French Revolution
Thomas Carlyle	xxix
Chronological Summary of the French Revolution	xxxi
PART I THE BASTILLE
Death of Louis XV
Louis the Well-beloved	3	(3)
Realized Ideals	6	(9)
Viaticum	15	(2)
Louis the Unforgotten	17	(7)
The Paper Age
Astraea Redux	24	(5)
Petition in Hieroglyphs	29	(2)
Questionable	31	(3)
Maurepas	34	(4)
Astraea Redux without Cash	38	(3)
Windbags	41	(4)
Contrat Social	45	(3)
Printed Paper	48	(5)
The Parlement of Paris
Dishonoured Bills	53	(4)
Controller Calonne	57	(3)
The Notables	60	(8)
Lomenie's Edicts	68	(4)
Lomenie's Thunderbolts	72	(4)
Lomenie's Plots	76	(4)
Internecine	80	(5)
Lomenie's Death-throes	85	(9)
Burial with Bonfire	94	(4)
States-General
The Notables Again	98	(5)
The Election	103	(5)
Grown Electric	108	(3)
The Procession	111	(17)
The Third Estate
Inertia	128	(7)
Mercury de Breze	135	(7)
Broglie the War-God	142	(5)
To Arms!	147	(5)
Give us Arms	152	(6)
Storm and Victory	158	(7)
Not a Revolt	165	(4)
Conquering Your King	169	(3)
The Lanterne	172	(6)
Consolidation
Make the Constitution	178	(5)
The Constituent Assembly	183	(5)
The General Overturn	188	(7)
In Queue	195	(3)
The Fourth Estate	198	(3)
The Insurrection of Women
Patrollotism	201	(4)
O Richard, O My King	205	(4)
Black Cockades	209	(1)
The Menads	210	(3)
Usher Maillard	213	(5)
To Versailles	218	(4)
At Versailles	222	(3)
The Equal Diet	225	(5)
Lafayette	230	(3)
The Grand Entries	233	(5)
From Versailles	238	(9)
PART II THE CONSTITUTION
The Feast of Pikes
In the Tuileries	247	(3)
In the Salle de Manege	250	(11)
The Muster	261	(6)
Journalism	267	(4)
Clubbism	271	(3)
Je le Jure	274	(3)
Prodigies	277	(3)
Solemn League and Covenant	280	(5)
Symbolic	285	(2)
Mankind	287	(5)
As in the Age of Gold	292	(5)
Sound and Smoke	297	(7)
Nanci
Bouille	304	(2)
Arrears and Aristocrats	306	(6)
Bouille at Metz	312	(3)
Arrears at Nanci	315	(4)
Inspector Malseigne	319	(3)
Bouille at Nanci	322	(9)
The Tuileries
Epimenides	331	(4)
The Wakeful	335	(5)
Sword in Hand	340	(6)
To Fly or Not to Fly	346	(7)
The Day of Poniards	353	(6)
Mirabeau	359	(3)
Death of Mirabeau	362	(9)
Varennes
Easter at Saint-Cloud	371	(4)
Easter at Paris	375	(2)
Count Fersen	377	(7)
Attitude	384	(3)
The New Berline	387	(4)
Old-Dragoon Drouet	391	(3)
The Night of Spurs	394	(7)
The Return	401	(3)
Sharp Shot	404	(5)
Parliament First
Grande Acceptation	409	(7)
The Book of the Law	416	(7)
Avignon	423	(6)
No Sugar	429	(3)
Kings and Emigrants	432	(9)
Brigands and Jales	441	(3)
Constitution Will Not March	444	(5)
The Jacobins	449	(3)
Minister Roland	452	(4)
Petion-National-Pique	456	(2)
The Hereditary Representative	458	(3)
Procession of the Black Breeches	461	(6)
The Marseillese
Executive That Does Not Act	467	(6)
Let Us March	473	(2)
Some Consolation to Mankind	475	(4)
Subterranean	479	(3)
At Dinner	482	(3)
The Steeples at Midnight	485	(8)
The Swiss	493	(6)
Constitution Burst in Pieces	499	(8)
PART III THE GUILLOTINE
September
The Improvised Commune	507	(10)
Danton	517	(4)
Dumouriez	521	(3)
September in Paris	524	(8)
A Trilogy	532	(6)
The Circular	538	(8)
September in Argonne	546	(8)
Exeunt	554	(7)
Regicide
The Deliberative	561	(8)
The Executive	569	(4)
Discrowned	573	(2)
The Loser Pays	575	(3)
Stretching of Formulas	578	(4)
At the Bar	582	(8)
The Three Votings	590	(5)
Place de la Revolution	595	(6)
The Girondins
Cause and Effect	601	(6)
Culottic and Sansculottic	607	(4)
Growing Shrill	611	(4)
Fatherland in Danger	615	(7)
Sansculottism Accoutred	622	(4)
The Traitor	626	(4)
In Fight	630	(2)
In Death-Grips	632	(5)
Extinct	637	(6)
Terror
Charlotte Corday	643	(7)
In Civil War	650	(3)
Retreat of the Eleven	653	(4)
O Nature	657	(5)
Sword of Sharpness	662	(3)
Risen against Tyrants	665	(3)
Marie-Antoinette	668	(3)
The Teeny-Two	671	(4)
Terror the Order of the Day
Rushing Down	675	(4)
Death	679	(6)
Destruction	685	(8)
Carmagnole Complete	693	(6)
Like a Thunder-Cloud	699	(3)
Do Thy Duty	702	(7)
Flame-Picture	709	(4)
Thermidor
The Gods Are Athirst	713	(5)
Danton, No Weakness	718	(5)
The Tumbrils	723	(5)
Mumbo Jumbo	728	(3)
The Prisons	731	(3)
To Finish the Terror	734	(4)
Go Down To	738	(7)
Vendemiaire
Decadent	745	(3)
La Cabarus	748	(4)
Quiberon	752	(3)
Lion Not Dead	755	(4)
Lion Sprawling Its Last	759	(5)
Grilled Herrings	764	(3)
The Whiff of Grapeshot	767	(6)
Finis	773	(4)
Index	777