The French Revolution marks the foundation of the modern
political world. It was in the crucible of the Revolution that the
political forces of conservatism, liberalism and socialism began to
find their modern form, and it was the Revolution that first
asserted the claims of universal individual rights, on which our
current understandings of citizenship are based. But the Terror
was, as much as anything else, a civil war, and such wars are
always both brutal and complex. The guillotine in Paris claimed
some 1,500 official victims, but executions of captured
counter-revolutionary rebels ran into the tens of thousands, and
deaths in the areas of greatest conflict probably ran into six
figures, with indiscriminate massacres being perpetrated by both
sides. The story of the Terror is a story of grand political
pronouncements, uprisings and insurrections, but also a story of
survival against hunger, persecution and bewildering ideological
demands, a story of how a state, even with the noblest of
intentions, can turn on its people and almost crush them.
關於作者：
David Andress is a leading scholar of the French Revolution
and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
目錄：
Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction
Night Flight
Hankering After Destruction
The Fall
The September Massacres
Dawn of a New Age
Things Fall Apart
Holding the Centre
Saturnalia
Faction and Conspiracy
Glaciation
Triumph and Collapse
Terror Against Terror
Conclusion
Timeline of the French Revolution to 1795
Glassary
Cast of Characters
Notes
Index
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