François Furet is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is considered throughout the world to be the most outstanding living historian of the French Revolution.

• List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements.1. The Ancien Régime.2. The Revolution of 1789: 1787-1791.3. The Jacobin Republic: 1791-1794.4. The Thermidorian Republic: 1794-1799.5. Napoleon Bonaparte: 1799-1814.Appendix I: Chronological Table.Appendix II: The Republican Calendar for Year II (1793-1794).Bibliography.Glossary.Index of Names.Index of Subjects.

Reviews of the parent volume Revolutionary France 1770-1880: "An outstanding work of synthesis and imagination." The Times"This book is the best - and, especially, the best written - history of French politics during these years that I know. Conceived in the analytical tradition of Constant and Tocqueville, written in the narrative, learned, and convincing." Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University