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Twelve Who Ruled R. R. Palmer

Twelve Who Ruled By R. R. Palmer

Twelve Who Ruled by R. R. Palmer

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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution by R. R. Palmer

The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France. R. R. Palmer's fascinating narrative follows the Committee's deputies individually and collectively, recounting and assessing their tumultuous struggles in Paris and their repressive missions in the provinces. A foreword by Isser Woloch explains why this book remains an enduring classic in French revolutionary studies.

Twelve Who Ruled Reviews

Excellently documented... [O]ne of the best pictures that has ever been put together of the twelve men who made up [the] Committee of Public Safety... There is fine scholarship here.--New York Times An excellent book on the administration of France by the great Committee of Public Safety... [Palmer] has made the members of the Committee living characters and the events of the period real occurrences.--American Political Science Review A wonderful collective portrait of the Committee of Public safety; from the first sight of the room where they met at the Tuileries, you are plunged into the drama of their adventure.--Biancamaria Fontana, Times Higher Education

About R. R. Palmer

R. R. Palmer (1909-2002) was professor emeritus of history at Yale University and a guest scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He taught at Princeton University from 1936 to 1963. He was the author of many books, including the two-volume The Age of the Democratic Revolution (Princeton), the first volume of which won the Bancroft Prize in 1960, and the translator of The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre. Isser Woloch is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vi Foreword to the Princeton Classic Edition vii Preface to the Bicentennial Edition xvii 1 Twelve Terrorists to Be 3 2 The Fifth Summer of the Revolution 22 3 Organizing the Terror 44 4 The Beginning of Victory 78 5 The Foreign Plot and 14 Frimaire 108 6 Republic in Miniature 130 7 Doom at Lyons 153 8 The Missions to Alsace 177 9 The Missions to Brittany 202 10 Dictated Economy 225 11 Finding the Narrow Way 254 12 Ventose 280 13 The Culmination 305 14 The Rush Upon Europe 335 15 The Fall 361 Epilogue 388 Bibliographical Essay 397 Index 405

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9780691175928
0691175926
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution by R. R. Palmer
R. R. Palmer
Princeton Classics
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Princeton University Press
2017-04-04
448
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