A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution

Edited by François Furet

Edited by Mona Ozouf

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

    1. EVENTS

    Chouannerie
    François Furet

    Coups d'Etat
    Denis Richet

    De-Christianization
    Mona Ozouf

    Elections
    Patrice Gueniffey

    Estates General
    Ran Halévi

    Federalism
    Mona Ozouf

    Federation
    Mona Ozouf

    Great Fear
    Jacques Revel

    Italian Campaign
    Denis Richet

    King's Trial
    Mona Ozouf

    Night of August 4
    François Furet

    The Revolution and Europe
    Alan Forrest

    Revolutionary Journées
    Denis Richet

    Terror
    François Furet

    Treaties of Basel and The Hague
    Denis Richet

    Varennes
    Mona Ozouf

    Vendée
    François Furet

    2. ACTORS

    Individuals

    Babeuf
    François Furet

    Barnave
    François Furet

    Carnot
    Patrice Gueniffey

    Condorcet
    Keith M. Baker

    Danton
    Mona Ozouf

    Lafayette
    Patrice Gueniffey

    Louis XVI
    François Furet

    Marat
    Mona Ozouf

    Marie Antoinette
    Jacques Revel

    Mirabeau
    François Furet

    Napoleon Bonaparte
    François Furet

    Necker
    Marcel Gauchet

    Robespierre
    Patrice Gueniffey

    Sieyès
    Keith M. Baker

    Groups

    Emigrés
    Massimo Boffa

    Enragés
    Denis Richet

    Feuillants
    Ran Halévi

    Girondins
    Mona Ozouf

    Hébertists
    Denis Richet

    Monarchiens
    Ran Halévi

    Montagnards
    Mona Ozouf

    Sans-culottes
    Patrice Higonnet

    Thermidorians
    Bronislaw Baczko

    3. INSTITUTIONS AND CREATIONS

    Army
    Alan Forrest

    Assignats
    Michel Bruguière

    Civil Code
    Joseph Goy

    Civil Constitution of the Clergy
    François Furet

    Clubs and Popular Societies
    Patrice Gueniffey and Ran Halévi

    Committee of Public Safety
    Denis Richet

    Constitution
    Keith M. Baker

    Département
    Mona Ozouf

    Maximum
    François Furet

    National Properties
    Louis Bergeron

    Paris Commune
    Patrice Gueniffey

    Revolutionary Assemblies
    Denis Richet

    Revolutionary Calendar
    Mona Ozouf

    Revolutionary Government
    François Furet

    Revolutionary Religion
    Mona Ozouf

    Suffrage
    Patrice Gueniffey

    Taxes
    Gail Bossenga

    4. IDEAS

    American Revolution
    Philippe Raynaud

    Ancien Régime
    François Furet

    Aristocracy
    David D. Bien

    Centralization
    Yann Fauchois

    Counterrevolution
    Massimo Boffia

    Democracy
    Philippe Raynaud

    Enlightenment
    Bronislaw Baczko

    Equality
    Mona Ozouf

    Feudal System
    François Furet

    Fraternity
    Mona Ozouf

    Jacobinism
    François Furet

    Liberty
    Mona Ozouf

    Montesquieu
    Bernard Manin

    Nation
    Pierre Nora

    Natural Borders
    Denis Richet

    Physiocrats
    Pierre Rosanvallon

    Public Spirit
    Mona Ozouf

    Regeneration
    Mona Ozouf

    Republic
    Pierre Nora

    Revolution
    Mona Ozouf

    Rights of Man
    Marcel Gauchet

    Rousseau
    Bernard Manin

    Sovereignty
    Keith M. Baker

    Vandalism
    Bronislaw Baczko

    Voltaire
    Mona Ozouf

    5. HISTORIANS AND COMMENTATORS

    Academic History of the Revolution
    François Furet

    Blanc
    François Furet

    Buchez
    François Furet

    Burke
    Gérard Gengembre

    Constant
    Marcel Gauchet

    Fichte
    Luc Ferry

    Guizot
    Pierre Rosanvallon

    Hegel
    Luc Ferry

    Jaurès
    Mona Ozouf

    Kant
    Luc Ferry

    Maistre
    Massimo Boffa

    Marx
    François Furet

    Michelet
    François Furet

    Quinet
    François Furet

    Staël
    Marcel Gauchet

    Thine
    Mona Ozouf

    Tocqueville
    François Furet

    Contributors

    Name Index

    Subject Index

    Alphabetical List of Articles

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François Furet, former president of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is presently director of the Institut Raymond-Aron in Paris and Professor of History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Mona Ozouf is director of research at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique. She is the author of Festivals and the French Revolution (Harvard University Press).

Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.