The French Revolution 1787-1799: From the Storming of the Bastille to Napoleon

History

Soboul, Albert

Albert Soboul

Europe

Routledge

The Parisian popular classes played a major role in the political struggle leading to the consolidation of the Revolutionary Government in the wake of the French Revolution. The author examines those classes in the social and political arenas, devoting a chapter to their daily life as well.

The Parisian Sans-Culottes and the French Revolution, 1793-4.

Praeger

Text: English, French (translation)

A short history of the French Revolution, 1789-1799

University of California Press

Albert Soboul has held the Chair of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbone since 1967, and is probably the leading Marxist scholar working in that field today. The book translated here should be regarded more as a synopsis of Professor Soboul's interpretation of the Revolution than as a detailed account of the course of events; it is an essay in analysis rather than a narrative. In it the author argues that the French Revolution can only be understood in terms of class struggle, and that any attempt to diminish the significance of class conflict as its motive force obscures the meaning of the events of the Revolution and rends them ultimately incomprehensible. The course of the Revolution and its final outcome, which was clear by the time Napoleon seized power in 1799, were the products of a complex class struggle enacted simultaneously on many levels, leading finally to the triumph of the bourgeoisie, the defeat of the aristocracy, and the fragmentation and collapse of the popular forces, who as the allies of the bourgeoisie had played a vital part in securing its victory. Professor Soboul shows that although the Revolution was caused initially by specific factors peculiar to the structure of French society at the end of the Old Regime, it came to constitute the definitive type of the bourgeois revolution and opened the way for the ascendary of industrial capitalism in the next century, not merely in France, but in the rest of Europe and the world at large.

A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799

Symcox, Geoffrey

This book is . . . concerned with the study of the all-important social force within the revolutionary process in France between 1793 and 1794, during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship of Public Safety, that is to say, with the Paris of the sans-culottes, organized in forty-eight sections'

The Sans-Culottes

Princeton University Press

A phenomenon of the pre-industrial age, the Sans-Culottes--master craftsmen, shopkeepers, small merchants, domestic servants--were as hostile to the ideas of capitalist bourgeoisie as they were to those of the ancien regime which was overthrown in the first years of the Revolution. Here is a detailed portrait of who these people were and a sympathetic account of their moment in history.

The Sans-Culottes: The Popular Movement and Revolutionary Government, 1793-1794

Seventeen fascinating essays on many aspects of the French Revolution. Soboul was chair of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne for many years until his death in 1982. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Brief biography of the author.

Understanding the French Revolution (English and French Edition)

International Publishers

Understanding the French Revolution

Merlin Press

Les Sans-Culottes parisiens en l'An II. Mouvement populaire et gouvernement révolutionnaire (1793-17

SEUIL

Le procès de Louis XVI

Фоліо

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