Histoire De La Révolution Française, Tome 03
1842
Histoire De La Révolution Française, Tome 03
1842
Thiers wrote this history as both scholar and participant in the political upheavals that followed 1789, and that dual perspective animates every page. Volume III plunges into the National Convention, that extraordinary assembly where deputies debating the fate of a king would also debate the fate of a nation descending into violence. Thiers documents the September Massacres with the precision of a reporter and the horror of a citizen who would later help construct the Bourbon compromise, the July Monarchy, and eventually the Third Republic. The conflict between the Girondins and Montagnards, the political assassinations disguised as justice, the crowds that became instruments of terror, all unfold through a narrator who understands how power corrupts and how revolution devours its children. This is not disinterested scholarship but a statesman's reckoning with the chaos he witnessed and inherited, told in prose that still crackles with the urgency of events that seemed, in 1792, to be ending civilization as Europeans knew it.
