France under the Directory
- Author: Martyn Lyons
- Date Published: September 1975
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521099509
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On 9 thermidor Year 2, Robespierre fell; on18 brumaire Year 8, a coup d'état brought Bonaparte to power. This book demonstrates that the interval between these two momentous events was also of crucial importance. Using the findings of recent research, it presents a balanced appraisal of the thermidorean and directorial regimes to the English student. For Jacobin sympathizers thermidor and the Directory represented the betrayal of the revolutionary idea; for Bonapartist propagandists it represented chaos and corruption, and the darker the Directory could be painted, the more Bonaparte's reputation would be flattered. Dr Lyons attempts to dispose of these myths. He stresses the Directory's successes as well as its failures, and emphasizes elements of continuity which link it both with the Jacobin regime and with the Consulate. The regime inherited a heavy burden of war, inflation and food shortages, yet it remained revolutionary in its Republicanism, its anticlericalism, and its desire to carry the fruits of the Revolution to the rest of Europe. At the same time it laid the foundations of financial stability and administrative efficiency on which Bonaparte was to build.
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17th Oct 2024 by UName-144038
هذا الكتاب من الكتب المهمة التي تتحدث عن تاريخ فرنسا ولاسيما حكومة الادارة 1795-1799
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- Date Published: September 1975
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521099509
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. 'Nonante-Cinq'
2. The Conspiracy of the Equals
3. Royalist delusions
4. Directorial society: 'Les Gros'
5. Directorial society: 'Les Maigres'
6. Education and social welfare
7. 'Monsieur Dimanche' and 'Citoyen Decadi'
8. Philosophy and science: The legacy of Condillac
9. Taste under the Directory
10. The nation in arms
11. Administration and the 'conspiracy of indifference'
12. Economic life
13. Foreign policy: The Mediterranean dimension
14. Foreign policy: Profit and propaganda
15. The coups of floreal and prairial
16. The First Republic's last coup d'état .
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