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La Révolution française, Éditions Le Cavalier bleu, collection Idées reçues, 2008 ISBN 2846701873. La révolte brisée, femmes et hommes dans la Révolution française et l'Empire (1770-1820), Armand Colin, 2008 ISBN 2200346263. La Terreur. Part maudite de la Révolution, Gallimard, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard, 2010 ISBN 2070439143.
1995 : Histoire et dictionnaire du Consulat et de l'Empire (en collaboration). (ISBN 978-2-221-11421-6) 1995 : La Morale de l'histoire (en collaboration). 1996 : Mémoires de Talleyrand (présentation et notes). (ISBN 2-7433-0172-4) 1996 : Le Temps des passions : espérances, tragédies et mythes sous la Révolution et l'Empire (en collaboration).
The French Revolution (French: Révolution française [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
François Ignace Schaal, born and baptized on 5 December 1747 in Colmar and died on 30 August 1833 at Sélestat , was a French general and statesman of the French Revolutionary Wars and the First Empire. He was one of six children (four of whom grew to adulthood) of Jean-Baptiste Schaal, a lawyer in Colmar and Anne Barbe Kubler.
Son of a wealthy family in Pamiers, Ariège, he served in the army of the king Louis XV, taking part in the Seven Years' War and the Battle of Rossbach on 5 November 1757. . Upon his return to France in 1758, Vadier acquired large tracts of land in Pamiers and in 1770 purchased the office of conseiller (), which brought him into conflict with many of the local aristocracy and affluent bourgeoi
By the late 18th century, France had several colonies in the West Indies and the Indian Ocean whose economies were reliant on slave labor. In 1788, Jacques Pierre Brissot and Étienne Clavière founded the Society of the Friends of the Blacks , an organization dedicated to the abolition of slavery .
L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856) is a work by the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville translated in English as either The Old Regime and the Revolution or The Old Regime and the French Revolution. The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution, the Ancien Régime, and investigates the forces that caused the Revolution ...
The Plain (French: la Plaine), also known as the Marsh (French: le Marais), was the majority of independent deputies in the National Convention during the French Revolution. They were the most moderate and the most numerous group (around 400 deputies) of the National Convention, as they sat between the Girondins on their right and the ...