1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Note on the Text

      6  Acknowledgements

      7  Foreword

      8  Introduction: The Demons of Terror Notes

      9  Chapter 1: The Terror – a Concept Imposed by the Thermidoreans 1. How the ‘system of terror’ and the black legend of Robespierre were retrospectively invented 2. Developing use of the word ‘terror’ between 1789 and 1794 3. ‘Terror as the order of the day’: an unsaid, unofficial yet widespread order from the Convention Notes

      10  Chapter 2: The Meaning of ‘Terror’ Before the Revolution 1. Terror and Enlightenment. A problematic connection 2. The concept of ‘terror’ in the Ancien Régime 3. The role of terror in political theory Notes

      11  Chapter 3: Terror in the Heart: The Weight of Fears and Emotions 1. The spectre of conspiracy and treason 2. The flow of emotions and fears 3. The impossible combination of virtue and terror Notes

      12  Chapter 4: The Revolution and its Opponents: Clashes and the Intensification of Repression 1. Legislation targeting refractory clergy and émigrés 2. ‘The suspects’: how the net of suspicion widened 3. Repression against ‘federalism’ and the emblematic case of the Lyon revolt Notes

      13  Chapter 5: Creating Revolutionary Law: A Time of Political Exception 1. From ordinary law to ‘revolutionary’ law 2. ‘Revolutionary’ institutions and their role in repression 3. The recourse to extraordinary justice Notes

      14  Chapter 6: Terror in the Convention: Political Conflict as an Engine of ‘Terror’ 1. The Convention and the clubs: from political strife to ‘purging’ 2. From arrests to political trials 3. Death as a means to eliminate opponents in the Convention 4. The elimination of factions, the apogee of ‘terror’ or the will to end it? Notes

      15  Chapter 7: Paris and the Vendée at the Heart of the ‘Terror’ 1. Paris, capital of the sans-culotte movement 2. Paris, epicentre of the ‘Terror’ 3. The ‘military Vendée’, a zone of civil war Notes

      16  Chapter 8: Who Lived and Who Died? The Difficult Balance Sheets of Terror 1. Working out the death toll 2. Fraternal France and fratricidal France Notes

      17  Conclusion: How the Convention Reconstructed Itself After Thermidor Notes

      18  Chronology for the Years of the National Convention

      19  Maps

      20  Some Further Reading

      21  Index

      22  End User License Agreement

      1 MapsMap 1: The clergy who died in the Year II, ‘victims’ of the ‘terror’ according to the m…Map 2: The deputies of the Convention sent ‘on mission’, by department.Map 3: The deputies sent ‘on mission’ with the armies.Map 4: The armées révolutionnaires. Departments where at least one army, a battalion, o…Map 5: Operations of the Parisian armée révolutionnaire.Map 6: Prisons, sites of the guillotine,