	Preface	v
I.	The Two Great Currents of the Revolution	1
II.	The Idea	5
III.	Action	11
IV.	The People before the Revolution	16
V.	The Spirit of Revolt: the Riots	19
VI.	The Convocation of the States-General becomes Necessary	30
VII.	The Rising of the Country Districts during the Opening Months of 1789	35
VIII.	Riots in Paris and its Environs	46
IX.	The States-General	50
X.	Preparations for the Coup d'Etat	57
XI.	Paris on the Eve of the Fourteenth	67
XII.	The taking of the Bastille	78
XIII.	The Consequences of July 14 at Versailles	88
XIV.	The Popular Rising	94
XV.	The Towns	98
XVI.	The Peasant Rising	109
XVII.	August 4 and its Consequences	118
XVIII.	The Feudal Rights remain	129
XIX.	Declareation of the Rights of Man	141
XX.	The Fifth and Sixth of October 1789	146
XXI.	Fears of the Middle Classes--The New Municipal Organisation	158
XXII.	Financial Difficulties--Sale of Church Property	168
XXIII.	The Fete of the Federation	174
XXIV.	The "Districts" and the "Sections" of Paris	180
XXV.	The Sections of Paris under the New Municipal Law	189
XXVI.	Delays in the Abolition of the Feudal Rights	195
XXVII.	Feudal Legislation in 1790	205
XXVIII.	Arrest of the Revolution in 1790	213
XXIX.	The Flight of the King--Reaction--End of the Constituent Assembly	226
XXX.	The Legislative Assembly--Reaction in 1791-1792	237
XXXI.	The Counter-Revolution in the South of France	247
XXXII.	The Twentieth of June 1792	255
XXXIII.	The Tenth of August: Its Immediate Consequences	268
XXXIV.	The Interregnum--The Betrayals	282
XXXV.	The September Days	297
XXXVI.	The Convention--The Commune--The Jacobins	309
XXXVII.	The Government--Conflicts with the Conventions--The War	318
XXXVIII.	The Trial of the King	330
XXXIX.	The "Mountain" and the Gironde	340
XL.	Attempts of the Girondins to Stop the Revolution	348
XLI.	The "Anarchists"	353
XLII.	Causes of the Rising on May 31	361
XLIII.	Social Demands--State of Feeling in Paris--Lyons	370
XLIV.	The War--The Rising in La Vendée--Treachery of Dumouriez	379
XLV.	A New Rising Rendered Inevitable	391
XLVI.	The Insurrection of May 31 and June 2	399
XLVII.	The Popular Revolution--Arbitrary Taxation	407
XLVIII.	The Legislative Assembly and the Communal Lands	413
XLIX.	The Lands Restored to the Communes	421
L.	Final Abolition of the Feudal Rights	427
LI.	The National Estates	432
LII.	The Struggle Against Famine--The Maximum--Paper-Money	437
LIII.	Counter-Revolution in Brittany--Assassination of Marat	445
LIV.	The Vendée--Lyons--The Risings in Southern France	453
LV.	The War--The Invasion Beaten Back	462
LVI.	The Constitution--The Revolutionary Movement	470
LVII.	The Exhaustion of the Revolutionary Spirit	478
LVIII.	The Communist Movement	484
LIX.	Schemes for the Socialisation of Land, Industries, Means of Substance and Exchange	493
LX.	The End of the Communist Movement	500
LXI.	The Constitution of the Central Government--Reprisals	508
LXII.	Education--The Metric-System-The New Calendar--Anti-Religious Movement	518
LXIII.	The Suppression of the Sections	528
LXIV.	Struggle against the Hebertists	533
LXV.	Fall of the Hebertists--Danton Executed	542
LXVI.	Robespierre and his Group	550
LXVII.	The Terror	555
LXVIII.	The 9th Thermidor--Triumph of Reaction	562
	Conclusion	573
	Index	583

This online addition of The Great French Revolution was produced from:
Kropotkin, P. (1927). The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 (N. F. Dryhurst, Trans.) New York: Vanguard Printings. (Original work published 1909)
by Brooks Davis with additional contributions by Braden Pellett, and Julio Diaz.

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Kropotkin, P. (1927). The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793 (N. F. Dryhurst, Trans.) New York: Vanguard Printings. (Original work published 1909)

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