Twelve Who Ruled

The Year of Terror in the French Revolution

R. R. Palmer

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780691008882
  9780691051192
• eBook ISBN:
  9781400849390
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: French History
• Index: History

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.

Index

INDEX

Academy of Sciences, 355

Acadia, 165

Achard, 171

Admiral, 328

agriculture, 235-36, 240, 314

Aigueperse, 149

Alexander I, 392

Algeria, 390

Allier, 250

Allies, advance of 1793, 24; plans to partition France, 57; discord among, 87-88, 336-39, 351

Alsace, 4, 57, 116, 177-99, 320, 350

Alvinzi, 354

Amar, 295

Ambert, 131, 134, 138, 140

America, see United States, convoy

Andelys, 249

Angers, 252

Antwerp, 358

armaments, see munitions

Arms Administration, 241

Army, before Revolution, 7-8; disorganized by Revolution, 23-24, 78 ff., 212; reorganized, 81 ff., 96 ff., 182-85, 306; miscellaneous, 46, 74, 124, 339-40, 384

Army of Condé, 179

Army of the Alps, 103, 153, 251

Army of the Ardennes, 79, 97, 351, 352

Army of the Côtes de Cherbourg, 214

Army of the Eastern Pyrenees, 103, 251, 341

Army of Italy, 245, 251, 341-42

Army of the Moselle, 78, 91, 104, 180 ff., 341, 350, 351, 352

Army of the North, 78, 80, 82, 91-105, 183, 212, 245, 341, 350 ff.

Army of the Rhine, 79, 87, 91, 104, 180 ff., 341, 350

Army of the Sambre-Meuse, 352 ff.

Army of the West, 103

Arras, 6, 7, 307

Artois, count of, 24, 205

arts, 317-20

Arts Commission, 295

assignats, ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• 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