Ian Davidson - The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny

THE

FRENCH

REVOLUTION

IAN DAVIDSON worked for the Financial Times for many years, as Paris correspondent and as chief foreign affairs columnist. He studied English and Classics at Cambridge University, before being awarded the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship at Harvard and later becoming Visiting Fellow at the School for Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Based in London, he is author of Voltaire in Exile and Voltaire: A Life (Profile, 2010).

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THE

FRENCH

REVOLUTION

From Enlightenment to Tyranny

IAN DAVIDSON

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To the late Peter Carson, peerless editor and fellow-KS, who urged me, all those many years ago, to undertake this book; and to Jennifer Monahan, my wife, whose multifold talents and tireless support enabled me to write it.

MAPS

FRANCE IN THE 1790s

The system of the dpartements was decided by the National Assembly on 26th February 1790.

NORTHERN FRANCE 1790s

REVOLUTIONARY PARIS

SECTIONS

1. Tuileries
2. Champs lyses
3. Roule
4. Palais Royal
5. Place Vendme
6. Bibliothque
7. Grange Batelire
8. Louvre
9. Oratoire
10. Halle au Bl
11. Postes
12. Place Louis XIV
13. Fontaine Montmorency
14. Bonne Nouvelle
15. Ponceau
16. Mauconseil
17. March des Innocents
18. Lombards
19. Arcis
20. Faubourg Montmartre
21. Poissonnire
22. Bondy
23. Temple
24. Popincourt
25. Montreuil
26. Quinze-Vingts
27. Gravilliers
28. Faubourg Saint Denis
29. Beaubourg
30. Enfants Rouges
31. Roi de Sicile
32. Htel de Ville
33. Place Royle
34. Arsenal
35. Ile Saint-Louis
36. Notre-Dame
37. Henri VI
38. Invalides
39. Fontaine de Grenelle
40. Quatre nations
41. Thtre Franais
42. Croix Rouge
43. Luxembourg
44. Thermes de Julien
45. Sainte-Genevive
46. Observatoire
47. Jardin des Plantes
48. Gobelins

KEY PLACES

1. La place de la Rvolution
2. La couvent des Jacobins
3. Le Palais des Tuileries
4. Palais Royal
5. Lhtel de Ville
6. Lhtel des Invalides
7. Club Cordeliers
8. Palais Bourbon
9. Les Capucins

PRISONS

1. Saint-Lazare
2. Madelonelles
3. Le Temple
4. Lhtel de la Force
5. La Bastille
6. LAbbaye
7. Conciergerie
8. Des Carmes
9. Palais du Luxembourg
10. Montaign
11. Bictre hors Paris

VERSAILLES

1. Chteau de Versailles
2. Salle du Jeu de Paume
3. Eglise Saint-Louis (named Temple of Abundance)
4. Salle des Menus Plaisirs (meeting place of the National Assembly)

TIMELINE