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  1. The Project Gutenberg eBook of The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789, by Alexis de Tocqueville
    1. E-text prepared by Cindy Horton, Clarity, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
  2. THE STATE OF SOCIETY IN FRANCE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION OF 1789
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
  5. PRELIMINARY NOTICE
  6. BOOK I.
    1. CHAPTER I.
    2. CHAPTER II.
    3. CHAPTER III.
    4. CHAPTER IV.
    5. CHAPTER V.
  7. BOOK II.
    1. CHAPTER I.
    2. CHAPTER II.
    3. CHAPTER III.
    4. CHAPTER IV.
    5. CHAPTER V.
    6. CHAPTER VI.
    7. CHAPTER VII.
    8. CHAPTER VIII.
    9. CHAPTER IX.
    10. CHAPTER X.
    11. CHAPTER XI.
    12. CHAPTER XII.
    13. CHAPTER XIII.
    14. CHAPTER XIV.
    15. CHAPTER XV.
    16. CHAPTER XVI.
    17. CHAPTER XVII.
    18. CHAPTER XVIII.
    19. CHAPTER XIX.
    20. CHAPTER XX.
    21. SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER.
  8. BOOK III.
    1. CHAPTER I.
    2. CHAPTER II.
    3. CHAPTER III.
    4. CHAPTER IV.
    5. CHAPTER V.
    6. CHAPTER VI.
    7. CHAPTER VII.
    8. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.[139]
  9. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE

CONTENTS.

PAGE
Translator’s Preface to the Second Edition[5]
Preliminary Notice[9]
BOOK I.
CHAPTER
I.Opposing Judgments passed on the French Revolution at its Origin1
II.The Fundamental and Final Object of the Revolution was not, as
has been supposed, the destruction of Religious Authority and
the weakening of Political Power		5
III.Showing that the French Revolution was a Political Revolution
which followed the course of Religious Revolutions, and for what
Reasons		9
IV.Showing that nearly the whole of Europe had had precisely
the same Institutions, and that these Institutions were everywhere
falling to pieces		12
V.What was the peculiar scope of the French Revolution16
BOOK II.
I.Why Feudal Rights had become more odious to the People in
France than in any other country		19
II.Showing that Administrative Centralisation is an Institution
anterior in France to the Revolution of 1789, and not the product of
the Revolution or of the Empire, as is commonly said		28
III.Showing that what is now called Administrative Tutelage was an
Institution in France anterior to the Revolution		36
IV.Administrative Jurisdiction and the Immunity of Public Officers
are Institutions of France anterior to the Revolution		45
V.Showing how Centralisation had been able to introduce itself
among the ancient Institutions of France, and to supplant
without destroying them		50
VI.The Administrative Habits of France before the Revolution54
VII.Of all European Nations France was already that in which the
Metropolis had acquired the greatest preponderance over the
Provinces, and had most completely absorbed the whole Empire		63
VIII.France was the Country in which Men had become the most alike67
IX.Showing how Men thus similar were more divided than ever into
small Groups, estranged from and indifferent to each other		71
X.The Destruction of Political Liberty and the Estrangement of
Classes were the causes of almost all the disorders which led to
the Dissolution of the Old Society of France		84
XI.Of the Species of Liberty which existed under the Old Monarchy,
and of the Influence of that Liberty on the Revolution		94
XII.Showing that the Condition of the French Peasantry,
notwithstanding the progress of Civilisation, was sometimes worse in
the Eighteenth Century than it had been in the Thirteenth		105
XIII.Showing that towards the Middle of the Eighteenth Century Men
of Letters became the leading Political Men of France, and of
the effects of this occurrence		119
XIV.Showing how Irreligion had become a general and dominant
passion amongst the French of the Eighteenth Century, and
what influence this fact had on the character of the Revolution		128
XV.That the French aimed at Reform before Liberty136
XVI.Showing that the Reign of Louis XVI. was the most prosperous
epoch of the old French Monarchy, and how this very prosperity
accelerated the Revolution		146
XVII.Showing that the French People were excited to revolt by the
means taken to relieve them		155
XVIII.Concerning some practices by which the Government completed the
Revolutionary Education of the People of France		162
XIX.Showing that a great Administrative Revolution had preceded the
Political Revolution, and what were the consequences it
produced		166
XX.Showing that the Revolution proceeded naturally from the existing
State of France		175
SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER.
On the Pays d’États, and especially on the Constitutions of Languedoc182
BOOK III.
I.Of the violent and undefined Agitation of the Human Mind at the
moment when the French Revolution broke out		192
II.How this vague perturbation of the Human Mind suddenly became
in France a positive passion, and what form this passion at first
assumed		201
III.How the Parliaments of France, following precedent, overthrew the
Monarchy		205
IV.The Parliaments discover that they have lost all Authority, just
when they thought themselves masters of the Kingdom		224
V.Absolute Power being subdued, the true spirit of the Revolution
forthwith became manifest		229
VI.The preparation of the instructions to the Members of the
States-General drove the conception of a Radical Revolution home
to the mind of the People		240
VII.How, on the Eve of the Convocation of the National Assembly, the
mind of the Nation was more enlarged, and its spirit raised		243
Notes and Illustrations247

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