Introduction: The France of 1789 -- Prodigal anarchy -- The progress of knowledge -- The classes and the crisis -- The government of 1789 -- The elections and the memorials -- Part I : The constituent assembly -- The States-General, May-June 1789 -- The fourteenth of July -- A country in dissolution -- The night of August 4 and the declaration, July-October 1789 -- The days of October -- The assembly, the clubs, and the constitution -- The nationalization of church property -- The revolt of the troops and the federation -- Peace or war? -- The civil constitution -- The crisis of the revolution, December 1790-May 1791 -- Varennes -- The volleys on the champ-de-mars -- The end of the constituent assembly -- Part II : The legislative assembly -- An assembly of "Romans" -- Narbonne and the War -- The Roland Ministry and the declaration of war -- The fall of the "Great Ministry," June 20 -- The question of deposition -- The fall on the throne -- Danton : invasion and the massacres -- Valmy -- Part III : The national convention -- The "Giant assembly" -- The assaults of the Girondins, September-December 1792 -- The treason of Dumouriez -- The fall of the Girondins, April-June 1793 -- The insurrection in the provinces, June-July 1793 -- The government of public safety -- The first terror, July-December 1793 -- Robespierre and the "Factions," January-March 1794 -- The fall of the factions -- The reign of the virtue, March-July 1794 -- Thermidor -- The fall of the Jacobins, July-September 1794 -- France in the year III -- The "Empty Bellies" versus the "Rotten Bellies," September 1794-September 1795 -- The thirteenth Vendémiaire -- Part IV : The executive directory -- The directory and the country -- Barras, Babeuf, and Bonaparte, September 1795-May 1776 -- Bonaparte appears upon the scene, May 1796-March 1797 -- The councils versus The directory, March-August 1797 -- The coup d'état of Fructidor, August-September 1796 -- Society under the directory -- Bonaparte and the directory, September 1797-May 1798 -- Floréal. The directory versus the anarchists, May 1797-May 1798 -- Prairial. Last effort of the Jacobians, May 1798-July 1799 -- The appeal to the soldier, July-September 1799 -- The advent of Bonaparte -- The epilogue.