HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION VOLUME 5 — LOUIS BLANC

HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION — VOLUME 5

Robespierre has fallen. The Terror ends in the blood of Thermidor, and France, exhausted, seeks a new balance. It is in this crucial transitional period that Louis Blanc displays all his insight as a historian: how does a revolution that aimed to liberate man end up paving the way for a Corsican general?

This fifth volume recounts the Thermidorian reaction, the establishment of the Directory, the royalist and Jacobin conspiracies, and the gradual emergence of Napoleon Bonaparte. A masterful synthesis of the final days of the revolutionary Republic.

WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER

• The Thermidorian reaction and the end of the Terror
• The establishment of the Directory and its political contradictions
• Royalist and Jacobin conspiracies against the regime
• The rise of Bonaparte and the beginnings of the Consulate
• Louis Blanc's socialist analysis of the achievements and limits of the Revolution

COMPLETE COLLECTION

• Volume 1 — Volume 2 — Volume 3 — Volume 4 — Volume 6 — Volume 7 — Volume 8 — Volume 9

Available in print on demand, ePub, and PDF. Free delivery in France.