A simple outline for the eight session course

1. The French Revolution
1789-1799
LifeLearn
Fall, 2010; 20 September-8 November
session I Ancien Régime (the Old Order)
Origins
Medieval Monarchy
Development of the Nation State
Sun King
Great War for the Empire
France and the American Revolution
session II Siècle des Lumières (Age of Enlightenment)
Medieval Worldview
Scientific Revolution
Newton and Locke
Aufclarung
French Enlightenment
Salons
session III Quatre-vingt-neuf (‘Eighty-nine)
Causes
Summoning the Estates General
14 Juillet
Jacquerie & la Grande Peur
National Constituent Assembly
Les Poissardes
session IV Constitutions
Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 1790
Flight to Varennes
Constitution of 1791
the tenth of August
National Convention

2. session V Aux Armes, Citoyens! (Citizens, to Arms!)
Military Reforms before the Revolution
Opening Engagements
Counterrevolution in the Vendée
Levée en Masse
“Organizer of Victory”
The Rush upon Europe
session VI Terreur (Terror)
Twelve Who Ruled
Beginnings
The “Foreign Plot” and 14 Frimaire
Terror in the Provinces
Virtue and Terror?
session VII Thermidor (the Thermidorean Reaction)
9 Thermidor
What Now?
First White Terror
13 Vendémiaire
Constitution of the Year III
The Directory Begins
session VIII Directoire (the Directory)
The Directory at Work
Napoleon’s First Italian Campaign
America’s Quasi-war with France
The Tiger and the Shark
18 Brumaire, l’an viii
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11 September 2010