The French Revolution, 1787-1799: From the Storming of the Bastille to Napoleon |
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9 Thermidor administrative Albert Soboul Ancien Régime aristocracy army artisans assignat attack August became Bonaparte bourgeois bourgeoisie Brumaire capital cent Church citizens clergy Club Committee of Public Commune Constituent Assembly Constitution Convention Councils crisis Danton dechristianization declared decree defend demanded deputies Directory economic eighteenth century elected electoral émigrés equality feudal Floréal force France French Revolution Frimaire Fructidor Georges Lefebvre Germinal Gironde Girondins industrial institutions Jacobin Club Jacobins journées July June King large number liberty livres Louis XVI March ment Messidor middle classes monarchy Montagnards municipal national lands nobility nobles November October organization Paris parlement patriots peasantry peasants political popular classes popular movement Prairial principle privileges provinces Public Safety representatives Republic republican Revolutionary Government Robespierre royal royalist Saint-Just sans-culottes sections September Soboul social society taxes Terror Thermidor Thermidorian Third Estate tion towns trade troops unity Vendémiaire Ventôse victory voted