A great book capital Henri Guillemin. It analyzes how to momentary unity of the revolutionary forces of 1789 (bourgeoisie, peasants, artisans, etc) fractured rapidly since the end of 1789, when the Constituent Assembly and the legislature have taken steps to establish economic liberalism (free prices and movement of goods, etc.) and to violently suppress the revolt of the poor from destitution that this policy caused. How the social movement went crescendo until the mountain convention that dared the first economic control measures to remedy the poverty and rebuild national unity undermined. A lucid and uncompromising book, written by a humanist. To read.
