France in Revolution

Part 1 France in revolution: studying France in revolution; the Marxist interpretations; revisionist interpretations. Part 2 The Ancien Regime: the king's government; the Enlightenment; French society. Part 3 The origins of the French Revolution; financial crisis and aristocratic revolt; the Estates-General; the economic crisis; the revolt of Paris; the peasant revolution. Part 4 The revolution and the monarchy, 1789-92: the revolution consolidated; the reforms of the constituent assembly; the revolutionary clubs and popular discontent; the rise of a Republican Movement; the fall of the monarchy. Part 5 Revolutionary government and the terror: the struggle for power - Girondins and Jacobins; the dominance of the Sans-culottes; the dictatorship of the committee of public safety; the significance of Robespierre. Part 6 The Thermidorian reaction and the directory: the Thermidorian reaction; the directory. Part 7 The impact of the revolution: the Ancien Regime; the social impact; the economy; the impact on Europe.