CHAPTER VI. THE BIRTH OF THE TERRIBLE PARIS COMMUNE. I. Indignation of the Constitutionalists. II. Pressure on the King. III. The Girondins have worked for the benefit of the Jacobins. IV. Vain attempts of the Girondins to put it down. V. Evening of August 8. VI. Nights of August 9 and 10. VII. August 10. VIII. State of Paris in the Interregnum. BOOK THIRD. THE SECOND STAGE OF THE CONQUEST. CHAPTER I. TERROR I. Government by gangs in times of anarchy. II. The development of the ideas of killings in the mass of the party. III. Terror is their Salvation. IV. Date of the determination of this. The actors and their parts. V. Abasement and Stupor. VI. Jacobin Massacre. CHAPTER II. THE DEPARTMENTS. I. The Sovereignty of the People. II. In several departments it establishes itself in advance. III. Each Jacobin band a dictator in its own neighborhood. IV. Ordinary practices of the Jacobin dictatorship. V. The companies of traveling volunteers. VI. A tour of France in the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior. CHAPTER III. SECOND STAGE OF THE JACOBIN CONQUEST I. The second stage of the Jacobin conquest. II. The elections. III. Composition and tone of the secondary assemblies. IV. Composition of the National Convention. V. The Jacobins forming alone the Sovereign People. VI. Composition of the party. VII. The Jacobin Chieftains. CHAPTER IV. PRECARIOUS SITUATION OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. I. Jacobin advantages. II. Its parliamentary recruits. III. Physical fear and moral cowardice. IV. Jacobin victory over Girondin majority. V. Jacobin violence against the people. VI. Jacobin tactics. VII. The central Jacobin committee in power. VIII. Right or Wrong, my Country. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, VOLUME 3. PREFACE. BOOK FIRST. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT. CHAPTER I. JACOBIN GOVERNMENT I. The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin. II. Jacobin Dissimulation. III. Primary Assemblies IV. The Delegates reach Paris V. Fête of August 10th VI. The Mountain. VII. Extent and Manifesto of the departmental insurrection VIII. The Reasons for the Terror. IX. Destruction of Rebel Cities X. Destruction of the Girondin party XI. Institutions of the Revolutionary Government BOOK SECOND. THE JACOBIN PROGRAM. CHAPTER I. THE JACOBIN PARTY I. The Doctrine. II. A Communist State. III. The object of the State is the regeneration of man. IV. Two distortions of the natural man. V. Equality and Inequality. VI. Conditions requisite for making a citizen. VII. Socialist projects. VIII. Indoctrination of mind and intellect. CHAPTER II. REACTIONARY CONCEPT OF THE STATE. I. Reactionary concept of the State. II. Changed minds. III. Origin and nature of the modern State. IV. The state is tempted to encroach. V. Direct common interest. VI. Indirect common interest. VII. Fabrication of social instruments. VIII. Comparison between despotisms. BOOK THIRD. THE MEN IN POWER.