The History of the French Revolution

by Thiers, Adolphe; Shoberl, Frederick; Shoberl, Frederick

• ISBN13: 9781108035293
• ISBN10: 1108035299
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-10
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Marie-Louis-Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877) was a prominent figure in a turbulent period in French history. Described by Karl Marx as a 'monstrous gnome' and condemned by the left for suppressing the Paris Commune of 1871, he enjoyed a controversial political career, but it is for his epic Histoire de la Révolution Française that he is chiefly remembered today. It was first published in French in ten volumes between 1823 and 1827, and in 1838 Frederic Shoberl's English translation made it a staple of British bookshelves. Consolidated into five volumes and illustrated with an array of engravings, this edition presents readers with a history of events spanning more than a decade of revolution and war, and remains one of the most comprehensive accounts of the French Revolution. Volume 5 concludes the narrative with accounts of military campaigns abroad, political in-fighting at home, and Napoleon's coup d'état of November 1799.

Table of Contents

The National Convention: Consequences of the ninth of Thermidor

Renewal of military operations

Winter of the year III

Conquest of Holland

Peace with Holland

Last conflicts between the Mountaineers and the Thermidorians

State of the armies

Intrigues of the Royalist party in the sections

The Directory: installation of the Directory

Continuation of the administration operations of the Directory

Campaign of 1796

Clarke at headquarters

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