Ending the Terror makes accessible for the first time to an English-speaking readership a major revisionist assessment of a crucial moment in the history of the French Revolution. The months that followed the fall of Robespierre in July 1794 mark not just a turning point in the history of the Revolution: "Thermidor" is also a symbolic moment that came to haunt the subsequent revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By this date the Terror as a system of power was discredited, and the engineers of the Terror were confronting the problem of how to dismantle it without repudiating the aims of the Revolution itself and its work. Professor Baczko analyzes the Terror in detail through the political history of the French National Assembly, and looks at the broader issues of the political culture of Revolutionary France.
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"Baczko is a talented researcher who has consulted a variety of published sources. He has an eye for texts--speeches, pamphlets, newspaper articles, trial reports, diaries, and memoirs--that illustrate exaggerated rumors, impassioned arguments, grotesque images, or violent scenes. ...Baczko's innovative methodology of textual analusis can inspire historians..." French Politics & Society
"Petheram's superb translation of Comment sortir de la terreur (Paris, 1989) adheres to the textual format of the original work." C. A. Gliozzo, Choice
"...one of the most thoughtful books ever written about the problems of the Thermidorian period...." William Doyle, Times Literary Supplement
"This is a book rich in erudition and suggestion, one that calls our attention to a problem as important as the origins of the Terror. Baczko is especially good on the complex, convoluted, and often coded debates of the former Jacobins...." David P. Jordan, American Historical Review
"Petheram's superb translation of Comment sortir de la terreur (Paris, 1989) adheres to the textual format of the original work." C. A. Gliozzo, Choice
"...one of the most thoughtful books ever written about the problems of the Thermidorian period...." William Doyle, Times Literary Supplement
"This is a book rich in erudition and suggestion, one that calls our attention to a problem as important as the origins of the Terror. Baczko is especially good on the complex, convoluted, and often coded debates of the former Jacobins...." David P. Jordan, American Historical Review
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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Celestin Guittard de Floriban, who summed up the events of 9 and 10 Thermidor in these words, is an invaluable witness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vandal plot, terrorist personnel, mass drownings, republican marriages, popular societies, last tyrant, des jacobins, political protagonists, revolutionary imagination, popular society, political personnel, revolutionary tribunal, revolutionary committee, surveillance committees, former committees, happy revolution, affiliated societies, unlimited sovereignty, general security, national representation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Committee of Public Safety, Committee of General Security, Committee of Public Instruction, Constitution of Year, French Revolution, Maison Commune, Edme Petit, Thermidorean Convention, Journal de Perlet, National Guard, Bulletin du Tribunal, Commission of the Arts, Constituent Assembly, Place du Carrousel, Ecole Normale, Mallet du Pan, Terror of Nantes, Benjamin Constant, Mona Ozouf, Committee of Legislation, Ecole Polytechnique, Guittard de Floriban, Pierre Chaux, Place de la Concorde, Robert Lindet New!
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Celestin Guittard de Floriban, who summed up the events of 9 and 10 Thermidor in these words, is an invaluable witness. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vandal plot, terrorist personnel, mass drownings, republican marriages, popular societies, last tyrant, des jacobins, political protagonists, revolutionary imagination, popular society, political personnel, revolutionary tribunal, revolutionary committee, surveillance committees, former committees, happy revolution, affiliated societies, unlimited sovereignty, general security, national representation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Committee of Public Safety, Committee of General Security, Committee of Public Instruction, Constitution of Year, French Revolution, Maison Commune, Edme Petit, Thermidorean Convention, Journal de Perlet, National Guard, Bulletin du Tribunal, Commission of the Arts, Constituent Assembly, Place du Carrousel, Ecole Normale, Mallet du Pan, Terror of Nantes, Benjamin Constant, Mona Ozouf, Committee of Legislation, Ecole Polytechnique, Guittard de Floriban, Pierre Chaux, Place de la Concorde, Robert Lindet New!
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- Beyond the Terror: Essays in French Regional and Social History 1794-1815 by Gwynne Lewis on page 76
- The French Revolution: 1770-1814 (History of France) by Francois Furet in Front Matter
- Virtue and Terror (Revolutions) by Maximilien Robespierre on page 28
- The French Revolution (Questions and Analysis in History) by Jocelyn Hunt on page 217
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