Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY
- CHAPTER II POPULATION, COMMERCE AND ECONOMIC IDEAS
- CHAPTER III LITERATURE AND THOUGHT: THE ROMANTIC TENDENCY, ROUSSEAU, KANT
- CHAPTER IV MUSIC, ART AND ARCHITECTURE
- CHAPTER V SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- CHAPTER VI EDUCATIONAL IDEAS, PRACTICE AND INSTITUTIONS
- CHAPTER VII ARMED FORCES AND THE ART OF WAR
- CHAPTER VIII EUROPEAN RELATIONS WITH ASIA AND AFRICA
- CHAPTER IX EUROPEAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS, 1763–90
- CHAPTER X THE HABSBURG POSSESSIONS AND GERMANY
- CHAPTER XI RUSSIA
- CHAPTER XII THE PARTITIONS OF POLAND
- CHAPTER XIII IBERIAN STATES AND THE ITALIAN STATES, 1763-1793
- CHAPTER XIV THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE BRITISH RULE
- CHAPTER XV SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA
- CHAPTER XVI THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONO, 1763–93: CONSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS
- CHAPTER XVII THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN ITS IMPERIAL, STRATEGIC AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS
- CHAPTER XVIII AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE IN ITS AMERICAN CONTEXT, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS, WESTERN EXPANSION
- CHAPTER XIX THE BEGINNINGS OF REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN, IMPERIAL PROBLEMS, POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH
- CHAPTER XX FRENCH ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC FINANCE IN THEIR EUROPEAN SETTING
- CHAPTER XXI THE BREAKDOWN OF THE OLD RÉGIME IN FRANCE
- CHAPTER XXII THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER XXIII THE OUTBREAK OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER XXIV REFORM AND REVOLUTION IN FRANCE: OCTOBER 1789–FEBRUARY 1793
- APPENDIX Estimated growth of population in Europe and North America in the eighteenth century
- References
CHAPTER XXIV - REFORM AND REVOLUTION IN FRANCE: OCTOBER 1789–FEBRUARY 1793
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY
- CHAPTER II POPULATION, COMMERCE AND ECONOMIC IDEAS
- CHAPTER III LITERATURE AND THOUGHT: THE ROMANTIC TENDENCY, ROUSSEAU, KANT
- CHAPTER IV MUSIC, ART AND ARCHITECTURE
- CHAPTER V SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- CHAPTER VI EDUCATIONAL IDEAS, PRACTICE AND INSTITUTIONS
- CHAPTER VII ARMED FORCES AND THE ART OF WAR
- CHAPTER VIII EUROPEAN RELATIONS WITH ASIA AND AFRICA
- CHAPTER IX EUROPEAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS, 1763–90
- CHAPTER X THE HABSBURG POSSESSIONS AND GERMANY
- CHAPTER XI RUSSIA
- CHAPTER XII THE PARTITIONS OF POLAND
- CHAPTER XIII IBERIAN STATES AND THE ITALIAN STATES, 1763-1793
- CHAPTER XIV THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE BRITISH RULE
- CHAPTER XV SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA
- CHAPTER XVI THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONO, 1763–93: CONSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS
- CHAPTER XVII THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN ITS IMPERIAL, STRATEGIC AND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS
- CHAPTER XVIII AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE IN ITS AMERICAN CONTEXT, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS, WESTERN EXPANSION
- CHAPTER XIX THE BEGINNINGS OF REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN, IMPERIAL PROBLEMS, POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH
- CHAPTER XX FRENCH ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC FINANCE IN THEIR EUROPEAN SETTING
- CHAPTER XXI THE BREAKDOWN OF THE OLD RÉGIME IN FRANCE
- CHAPTER XXII THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER XXIII THE OUTBREAK OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- CHAPTER XXIV REFORM AND REVOLUTION IN FRANCE: OCTOBER 1789–FEBRUARY 1793
- APPENDIX Estimated growth of population in Europe and North America in the eighteenth century
- References
Summary
When, after the October crisis, the National Assembly followed the French court from Versailles to Paris, it was able quickly to come to grips with the task of devising a new constitution. The danger of counter-revolution had once more receded and by November the food shortage in the capital was over. The timely surrenders of feudal privileges made in the August decrees, officially promulgated on 3 November, allayed peasant discontents at least temporarily and bought time for the lawyers of the feudal committee to consider how total the alleged ‘destruction’ of the feudal régime was to be in fact. A hiatus in the administration of justice and in the conduct of local government was averted by the provisional continuation of existing office-holders. The suspension, on 3 November, of the activities of the parlements removed a possible spring-board for counter-revolutionary resistance in the provinces. Though the October crisis prompted Louis XVI to send a secret and solemn protest against the restrictions forcibly imposed on the crown's authority to Charles IV of Spain, and though, by contrast, it encouraged the Belgian democrats to launch a revolt against the Austrian government in the Netherlands, neither of these repercussions involved much danger of European intervention in France. Most European governments were content to feel that France's political influence on the continent had been extinguished for some time to come. The first serious difficulties in France's foreign relations were in fact delayed till May 1790 and culminated in a solemn renunciation by the National Assembly of aggressive warfare and territorial conquest.
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- The New Cambridge Modern History , pp. 680 - 713Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1965