1 online resource (xxxix, 235 pages)

"This classic work details what happened in France during the year 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. First published in 1939 for the sesquicentennial of the Revolution, the book was suppressed by the Vichy government after the outbreak of the Second World War and the subsequent collapse of the Third Republic. Since most copies of the original French edition were destroyed, the work remained virtually unknown until Princeton University Press published R.R. Palmer's English translation in 1947. Subsequent editions were issued in 1967 and 1989. This new edition includes an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a short intellectual biography of Georges Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book after the research and reassessment of three generations of historians."--Jacket

Originally published: 1947

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part I: The aristocratic revolution -- The aristocracy -- The crisis of the monarchy -- Part II: The bourgeois revolution -- The bourgeoisie -- The first victory of the bourgeoisie -- The estates-general -- Part III: The popular revolution -- The mobilization of the masses -- The Paris revolution of July 14 -- The municipal revolutions in the provinces -- Part IV: The Peasant Revolution -- The peasantry -- The agrarian revolts and the great fear -- Part V: The rights of man and citizen -- The problem of the privileges -- The declaration of the rights of man and the citizen -- Part VI: The October days -- The revolutionary solution in the balance -- The popular agitation -- The October days: Confirmation by violence -- Conclusion -- Appendix I: Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen -- Appendix II: Other books by Georges Lefebvre

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