The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution 1793-1795

<p> A pendant to two well-received books by the same author on the departmental clubs during the early years of the Revolution this book is the product of thirty years of scholarly study including archival research in Paris and in more than seventy departments in France. It focuses on the twenty-eight months from May 1793 to August 1795 a period spanning the Federalist Revolt the Terror and the Thermidorian Reaction. The Federalist Revolt in which many clubs were involved had momentous consequences for all of them and was in the local setting the principal cause of the Reign of Terror a period in which more than 5300 communes had clubs that reached the zenith of their power and influence engaging in a myriad of political administrative judicial religious economic social and war-related activities. The book ends with their decline and final dissolution by a decree of the Convention in Paris.</p>