The French Revolution and the Church.

McManners, John,

The French Revolution and the Church. [print] - New York : Harper and Row, (c)1970. - x, 161 pages : 22 cm. - A torchbook library edition. .



The crisis of 1788 -- Church, state, and society on the eve of the revolution -- 1789 : May to October -- The ecclesiastical policy of the Constituent Assembly, August 1789 to June 1790 -- The civil constitution of the clergy -- The Gallican church divided -- The beginning of persecution, January 1791 to September 1792 -- The decline of the state church and the origins of the revolutionary religion, 1789 to September 1792 -- The Vende e and the beginning of terror -- De-Christianization -- Reason and the E tre Supre me -- The clergy under the terror -- Thermidor to Brumaire -- The twilight of the revolutionary cults -- Towards the Concordat.



DC158.C561.F746 1970