Choosing terror: virtue, friendship, and authenticity in the French Revolution

Abstract

Political Identity and the Jacobin Leaders 1. The Eighteenth-Century Man of Virtue 2. 'How the Face of Things Has Changed!' 3. New Men for New Politics: the First Jacobin Leaders 4. The Ascendancy of the Girondins and the Path to War 5. Choosing Sides: Friends, Factions and Conspirators in the New Republic 6. A Conspiracy of Girondins 7. Being Cincinnatus: The Jacobins in Power 8. The Enemy Within 9. The Robespierrists and the Republic of Virtue 10. Final Choices: Thermidor 11. Achieving Authenticity Conclusion