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Includes bibliographies and index v. From the First Empire to the Second Empire, France of the republics, The Parties. Their means of action. Parliamentary maneuvers. Policy of the Assembly. State of France at the end of The Assembly hostile to the oppressed and favoring oppressors.

Secret motives of the leaders. Effects of the war on the common people. Provence in Early supremacy of the Jacobins in Marseilles.

The expedition to Aix. The Constitutionalists of Arles. The Jacobins of Avignon. The other departments. Pressure of the Assembly on the King. The floating and poor population of Paris. Its leaders. Their committee. Methods for arousing the crowd.

The 20th of June. Indignation of the Constitutionalists. Pressure on the King. The Girondins have worked for the benefit of the Jacobins. Vain attempts of the Girondins to put it down. Evening of August 8. Nights of August 9 and August State of Paris in the Interregnum.

Government by gangs in times of anarchy. The development of the ideas of killings in the mass of the party. Terror is their Salvation. Date of the determination of this. The actors and their parts. Abasement and Stupor.

Jacobin Massacre. The Sovereignty of the People. In several departments it establishes itself in advance. Each Jacobin band a dictator in its own neighborhood.

Ordinary practices of the Jacobin dictatorship. The companies of traveling volunteers. A tour of France in the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior. The second stage of the Jacobin conquest. The elections. Composition and tone of the secondary assemblies. Composition of the National Convention. The Jacobins forming alone the Sovereign People. Composition of the party. The Jacobin Chieftains.

Jacobin advantages. Its parliamentary recruits. Physical fear and moral cowardice. Jacobin victory over Girondin majority.

Jacobin violence against the people. Jacobin tactics. The central Jacobin committee in power. Right or Wrong, my Country. The despotic creed and instincts of the Jacobin. Jacobin Dissimulation. Primary Assemblies IV. The Delegates reach Paris V. The Mountain. Extent and Manifesto of the departmental insurrection.

The Reasons for the Terror. Destruction of Rebel Cities X. Destruction of the Girondin party XI. Institutions of the Revolutionary Government. The Doctrine. A Communist State. The object of the State is the regeneration of man.

Two distortions of the natural man. Equality and Inequality. Conditions requisite for making a citizen. Socialist projects. Indoctrination of mind and intellect. Reactionary concept of the State. Changed minds. Origin and nature of the modern State. The state is tempted to encroach.

Direct common interest. Indirect common interest. Fabrication of social instruments. Comparison between despotisms. The Convention. Its participation in crime. The Committee of Public Safety. The Statesmen. Official Jacobin organs. Commissars of the Revolution. Brutal Instincts. The Central Government Administration.

Subaltern Jacobins. A Revolutionary Committee. Provincial Administration. Jacobins sent to the Provinces. Quality of staff thus formed. The Armed Forces. Revolutionary Destruction. The Value of Notables in Society. The three classes of Notables. The Clergy. The Bourgeoisie. The Demi-notables. Principle of socialist Equality. Rigor against the Upper Classes. The Jacobin Citizen Robot. The Governors and the Governed. Economical Complexity of Food Chain.

Conditions in A Lesson in Market Economics. Revolutionary Remedies. Misery at Paris. Re-election of the Two-thirds. A Directory of Regicides. Public Opinon. The Directory. Enforcement of Pure Jacobinism. Propaganda and Foreign Conquests. National Disgust.

Contrast between Civil and Military France. Napoleon's Past and Personality. His acute Understanding of Others. His Wonderful Memory. His Imagination and its Excesses. Intense Passions. Will and Egoism. Napoleon's Dominant Passion: Power. His Bad Manners. His Policy. Fundamental Defaults of his System. The Institution of Government. Default of previous government. In , the undertaking more difficult and the materials worse. Motives for suppressing the election of local powers.

Reasons for centralization. Irreconcilable divisions. Establishment of a new Dictatorship. Principal service rendered by the public power. Abusive Government Intervention.

The State attacks persons and property. Abuse of State powers. Final Results of Abusive Government Intervention. Precedents of the new organization. Doctrines of Government. Brilliant Statesman and Administrator. Napoleon's barracks.

Modeled after Rome. Rule as the mass want to be ruled. The Revolution Ends. Education and Medical Care. Old and New. Religion VII. The Confiscated Property. Public Education. Distributive Justice in Allotment of Burdens and Benefits. Equitable Taxation. Various Taxes. Conscription or Professional soldiers. Rights and benefits. Ambitions during the Ancient Regime. Ambition and Selection. Napoleon, Judge-Arbitrator-Ruler. The Struggle for Office and Title. Self-esteem and a good Reputation.

Human Incentives. Local Community. Essential Public Local Works. Local associations. Local versus State authority.

Local Elections under the First Consul. Municipal and general councillors under the Empire. Excellence of Local Government after Napoleon. Introduction of Universal suffrage. Universal suffrage. Equity in taxation. On unlimited universal suffrage. Rural or urban communes. The larger Communes. Local society in Final result in a tendency to bankruptcy.

Napoleon's Objectives. Napoleon's opinions and methods.