- List of Illustrations*
- List of Maps**
- Introduction: The Revolutionary Process
- 1. The Revolutionaries and Their World in 1789
- 2. The Spirit of ’89
- 3. The Breakdown of Authority
- 4. The Menace of Counterrevolution
- 5. Between Hope and Fear
- 6. The Factionalization of France
- 7. Fall of the Monarchy
- 8. The First Terror
- 9. The Convention and the Trial of the King
- 10. The Crisis of ’93
- 11. Revolution and Terror until Victory
- 12. The Year II and the Great Terror
- Conclusion: Becoming a Terrorist
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Sources and Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Illustrations
- The Tennis Court Oath
- Attack on the Bastille
- Market women leave Paris en route to Versailles
- Federation Ball
- Confrontation between Catholics and Protestants in Montauban
- The king’s flight halted by the national guard in Varennes
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Jacques-Pierre Brissot
- Storming of the Tuileries Palace
- A pro-Montagnard image of the people entering the Legislative Assembly
- Memorial service for the patriots killed in the attack on the Tuileries
- Enrollment of volunteers in Paris
- Trial of Louis XVI
- The representative on mission, Jean-Baptiste Milhaud
- A surveillance committee during the Terror
- Assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday
- Brissot and the Girondins sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal
- Festival of the Supreme Being
- Nine emigrants are guillotined after they had returned to France
- 9 Thermidor Year II in the Convention
- ** Maps
- France in 1789
- Revolutionary France in 1791
- Paris in 1792