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Ernest Belfort Bax

Sketches of the French Revolution

A Short History of the French Revolution for Socialists

(1890)

First published as a series in Justice, 1884 & 1889 (see Bibliography)
Republished in book form by Sonnenschein, London 1890
Transcribed by Ted Crawford
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.

Introduction
Morris, Bax and Babeuf
by Ian H. Birchall

The Literary Prologue

The Economic Prelude in the Provinces

I. The Opening of Paris

II. The Bastille

III. The Constitution-Mongers

IV. King and People or The New Constitution

V. A Constitution on its Beam Ends

VI. The Legislative Assembly

VII. The 10th of August

Part II

The First Paris Commune and the September Massacres

The National Convention

The Trial and Execution of the King

The Death Struggle Between Mountain and Gironde

Concerning Matters Economic

The Fall of the Gironde

The Sansculottes in Power

The Dictatorship of the Commune

The Terror

The Fall of the Hébertists

The Rule of Robespierre

Thermidor

The Reaction Begins

The Reaction Progresses

The Babeuf Conspiracy and End of the French Revolution

The National Property

Conclusion

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