Georges Lefebvre

The Thermadorians was a French political group active during the French Revolution. The group was named for the Thermidorian Reaction in 1794, when its members, led by Paul Barras, Jean-Lambert Tallien and Joseph Fouché, formed a coup d'état against Robespierre and Saint-Just, that were executed with their supporters, on the 27th of July, 1794. The after days, the Thermidorians took over the majority in the National Convention, and in 1795 a new constitution was expressed, with the National Convention that was desestablished for the creation of the French Directory. The Thermidorians became a republican and bourgeoise group, and like the new constitution, also conservative on social themes and liberal on economic themes.

"This classic work details what happened in France during the year 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. First published in 1939 for the sesquicentennial of the Revolution, the book was suppressed by the Vichy government after the outbreak of the Second World War and the subsequent collapse of the Third Republic. Since most copies of the original French edition were destroyed, the work remained virtually unknown until Princeton University Press published R. R. Palmer's English translation in 1947. Subsequent editions were issued in 1967 and 1989. This new edition includes an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a short intellectual biography of Georges Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book after the research and reassessment of three generations of historians."--BOOK JACKET.