Catechisms : a retrospective -- Reason : usage and meaning -- In two minds : constitutional monarchy -- Republican questions -- Republican answers -- After thermidor -- Concluding remarks
Summary
At the heart of the French Revolution there lay a fundamental paradox: how to liberate the minds of the people whilst simultaneously ensuring their loyalty to the new regime. It is an exploration of the facts and implications of this tension that forms the basis of this study, which reconstructs the intellectual world of the Revolution
