Readings on French Revolution through 1794:
Narrative Accounts: Palmer & Colton, Ch 9, espec pp. 363-374
                                Censer & Hunt, Ch 2 pp. 54-66; Ch 3 pp 86-105

 Theme for discussion:  Radicalization of the French Revolution 1790-1794
     What are the forces contributing to the process of political radicalization?
     What specific social groups were involved in this radicalized political process?
     What are the internal debates within the revolutionary movement?
     What led to the Terror, and how was it justified?  [See link to Robespierre speech on virtue & terror]

Specific Documents for discussion from Censer and Hunt:
     These documents representabout 20 pages in C&H, and another 9 pages on links below (Robespierre: 1) Speech on Virtue & Terror 2) Cult of Supreme Being
     Please read them, along with the narratives in P&C and C&H,  to get a sense of  the forces at work in the revolutionary process, and its internal conflicts.

 Optional:  Documents on political clubs:  pp. 68-72
                    2.2 Clubs for people, 1790: who are the “people” discussed here?
                    2.3 National Assembly Debate on Clubs, 1791: Cordeliers vs Robespierre
                       What is meant by their statements that “the Revolution is over”? [p. 70 - 71]

   Women as activists in the Revolution:
            2.7 Women's march on Versailles, October 1789, pp. 76-79
            2.8 Prudhomme on Women in Revolution, 1791:  what is his view of
                   women’s  role and his  message to women active in the political clubs?

    Documents on war & role of émigrés:  pp. 106-109
            3.1 National Assembly Address to King, Nov. 1791
                   What is the Assembly asking of the King?  Where does King’s loyalty lie?
                   What is the meaning of reference to Edict of Nantes & Louis XIV? [p.107]
            3.2 The Vendée [counterrevolution in west of France] 1793   Who are the “brigands”?

     Documents on Parisian radicals:  pp. 25-28
            1.4  Jacques Roux, Manifesto of  Enragés, 1793
                   How does he define freedom and equality?  Who are the sans-culottes?
            1.5  Babeuf, Conspiracy of Equals, Speech at Trial of 1795
                  Author of Tribune of the People: are people better off under the Republic?

    Documents on Terror, 1793-94:  pp. 73-75 and pp. 109-114
         2.5 Law of Suspects, 1793: Who are the major suspects & what are they suspected of?
         2.6 Law of Maximum, 1793: How might this law create new “suspects”?
       
         3.4 Law of 22 Prairial, Year II (June 1794): Who are the “enemies of the people”?
                                   How are they to be apprehended, and what penalty do they merit?
                                    Compare this to legal provisions of Decl. of Rights of Man, Doc. 1.16
         3.5 Debate on Law of 22 Prairial: this debate led to fall of  Robespierre

Documents on Roberspierre available through links:      
         Dedication of Cult of the Supreme Being, May 1794  (6 pp) Link is at
                http://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/cult-of-the-supreme-being/
          What kind of a religion is this?  How does it differ from Catholicism? from earlier Cult of Reason?
          Do you see any continuities with traditional religious practices?

 On Virtue & Terror  Link to  Robespierre’s speech “On Political Morality: on Virtue & Terror”  (3 pp; also CD ROM p. 65)
                          What are the goals of the revolution?  Who are its enemies?
                          Why does he say democracy and republicanism are the same?
                           Which group would have maintained they were different?
                           What does he mean by virtue, and how does it relate to terror?
                           Who is deserving of the protection of the Republic?