Peter Kropotkin

The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793

N. F. Dryhurst, Trans.

1909

CONTENTS
Forward by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic and Publisher's Note (Schocken Books, 1971)
Introduction by George Woodcock (Black Rose Books, 1989)

Preface v

  1. The Two Great Currents of the Revolution 1
  2. The Idea 5
  3. Action 11
  4. The People before the Revolution 16
  5. The Spirit of Revolt: the Riots 19
  6. The Convocation of the States-General becomes Necessary 30
  7. The Rising of the Country Districts during the Opening Months of 1789 35
  8. Riots in Paris and its Environs 46
  9. The States-General 50
  10. Preparations for the Coup d'Etat 57
  11. Paris on the Eve of the Fourteenth 67
  12. The taking of the Bastille 78
  13. The Consequences of July 14 at Versailles 88
  14. The Popular Rising 94
  15. The Towns 98
  16. The Peasant Rising 109
  17. August 4 and its Consequences 118
  18. The Feudal Rights remain 129
  19. Declareation of the Rights of Man 141
  20. The Fifth and Sixth of October 1789 146
  21. Fears of the Middle Classes -- The New Municipal Organisation 158
  22. Financial Difficulties -- Sale of Church Property 168
  23. The Fete of the Federation 174
  24. The "Districts" and the "Sections" of Paris 180
  25. The Sections of Paris under the New Municipal Law 189
  26. Delays in the Abolition of the Feudal Rights 195
  27. Feudal Legislation in 1790 205
  28. Arrest of the Revolution in 1790 213
  29. The Flight of the King -- Reaction -- End of the Constituent Assembly 226
  30. The Legislative Assembly -- Reaction in 1791-1792 237
  31. The Counter-Revolution in the South of France 247
  32. The Twentieth of June 1792 255
  33. The Tenth of August: Its Immediate Consequences 268
  34. The Interregnum -- The Betrayals 282
  35. The September Days 297
  36. The Convention -- The Commune -- The Jacobins 309
  37. The Government -- Conflicts with the Conventions -- The War 318
  38. The Trial of the King 330
  39. The "Mountain" and the Gironde 340
  40. Attempts of the Girondins to Stop the Revolution 348
  41. The "Anarchists" 353
  42. Causes of the Rising on May 31 361
  43. Social Demands -- State of Feeling in Paris -- Lyons 370
  44. The War -- The Rising in La Vendée -- Treachery of Dumouriez 379
  45. A New Rising Rendered Inevitable 391
  46. The Insurrection of May 31 and June 2 399
  47. The Popular Revolution -- Arbitrary Taxation 407
  48. The Legislative Assembly and the Communal Lands 413
  49. The Lands Restored to the Communes 421
  50. Final Abolition of the Feudal Rights 427
  51. The National Estates 432
  52. The Struggle Against Famine -- The Maximum -- Paper-Money 437
  53. Counter-Revolution in Brittany -- Assassination of Marat 445
  54. The Vendée -- Lyons -- The Risings in Southern France 453
  55. The War -- The Invasion Beaten Back 462
  56. The Constitution -- The Revolutionary Movement 470
  57. The Exhaustion of the Revolutionary Spirit 478
  58. The Communist Movement 484
  59. Schemes for the Socialisation of Land, Industries, Means of Substance and Exchange 493
  60. The End of the Communist Movement 500
  61. The Constitution of the Central Government -- Reprisals 508
  62. Education -- The Metric-System-The New Calendar -- Anti-Religious Movement 518
  63. The Suppression of the Sections 528
  64. Struggle against the Hebertists 533
  65. Fall of the Hebertists -- Danton Executed 542
  66. Robespierre and his Group 550
  67. The Terror 555
  68. The 9th Thermidor -- Triumph of Reaction 562
Conclusion 573
Index 583