The French Revolution 1789-1795Gardiner, Bertha Meriton
History
The French Revolution 1789-1795
Gardiner, Bertha Meriton
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
Results of the Movement of October 6 63
The Jacobins 64
The Constitution; Administrative Changes; Establishment
of 44,000 Municipalities 65
Judicial Reforms 66
Increase of the State debt 67
Church Property appropriated by the State 67
Creation of Assignats 68
Civil Constitution of the Clergy 69
Feast of the Federation 69
Emigration of the nobles 70
Embitterment of the Relations between nobles and peasants 71
Weakness of the Central Government 72
Mutinies in the Army 73
Imposition of an Oath on the Clergy; Schism in the Church 74
The Constitution decried by the Ultra-Democrats 76
Brissot 76
Desmoulins 77
Marat 78
Sources of influence exercised by the Ultra-Democrats 79
Influence exercised by Jacobin Clubs 80
September 1790. Resignation of Necker 81
The Commune of Paris; Composition of its Municipality 81
Mirabeau’s policy; his Death, April 2, 1791 84
Position of the Constitutionalists 85
CHAPTER V.
THE FALL OF THE MONARCHY, 1791–1792.
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