Old Regime and the Revolution

Chapters

1. 1 PrefaceTom Shoesmith 17:56
2. 2 Contradictory Opinions formed upon the Revolution when it broke outTom Shoesmith 7:58
3. 3 That the fundamental and final Object of the Revolution was not, as some have supposed, to destroy religious and to weaken political AuthorityTom Shoesmith 8:26
4. 4 That the French Revolution, though political, pursued the same Course as a religious Revolution, and whyTom Shoesmith 6:46
5. 5 How the same Institutions had been established over nearly all Europe, and were every where falling to piecesTom Shoesmith 8:48
6. 6 What did the French Revolution really achieve?Ty Lasky 5:34
7. 7 Why the feudal Rights were more odious to the People in France than any where elseJaboVercing 20:42
8. 8 That we owe “Administrative Centralization,” not to the Revolution or the Empire, as some say, but to the old RegimeTom Shoesmith 16:20
9. 9 That what is now called “the Guardianship of the State” (Tutelle Administrative) was an Institution of the old RegimeTom Shoesmith 17:43
10. 10 That administrative Tribunals (la Justice Administrative) and official Irresponsibility (Garantie des Functionnaires) were Institutions of the old RegimeTom Shoesmith 8:55
11. 11 How Centralization crept in among the old Authorities, and supplanted without destroying themTom Shoesmith 6:20
12. 12 Of official Manners and Customs under the old RegimeTom Shoesmith 17:50
13. 13 How the Capital of France had acquired more Preponderance over the Provinces, and usurped more Control over the Nation, than any other Capital in EuropeTom Shoesmith 8:45
14. 14 That Frenchmen had grown more like each other than any other PeopleTom Shoesmith 7:58
15. 15 That these Men, who were so alike, were more divided than they had ever been into petty Groups, each independent of and indifferent to the othersTom Shoesmith 26:52
16. 16 How the Destruction of political Liberty and Class Divisions were the Causes of all the Diseases of which the old Regime diedTom Shoesmith 20:40
17. 17 Of the kind of Liberty enjoyed under the old Regime, and of its Influence upon the RevolutionTom Shoesmith 24:24
18. 18 How the Condition of the French Peasantry was worse in some respects in the Eighteenth Century than it had been in the Thirteenth, notwithstanding the Progress of CivilizationTom Shoesmith 31:08
19. 19 How, toward the middle of the Eighteenth Century, literary Men became the leading Politicians of the Country, and of the Effects thereofTom Shoesmith 18:29
20. 20 How Irreligion became a general ruling Passion among Frenchmen in the Eighteenth Century, and of the Influence it exercised over the Character of the RevolutionTom Shoesmith 15:49
21. 21 How the French sought Reforms before LibertiesTom Shoesmith 21:24
22. 22 That the Reign of Louis XVI. was the most prosperous Era of the old Monarchy, and how that Prosperity really hastened the RevolutionTom Shoesmith 18:39
23. 23 How Attempts to relieve the People provoked RebellionTom Shoesmith 14:15
24. 24 Of certain Practices by means of which the Government completed the revolutionary Education of the PeopleTom Shoesmith 8:55
25. 25 How great administrative Changes had preceded the political Revolution, and of the Consequences thereofTom Shoesmith 18:08
26. 26 How the Revolution sprang spontaneously out of the preceding FactsTom Shoesmith 14:10
27. 27 AppendixTom Shoesmith 19:56
28. 28 Preface (Version 2)Wayne Cooke 21:29