Becoming a Revolutionary the Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790).

Includes bibliographies and index.

List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Note on Translations; Abbreviations ; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: DEPUTY BACKGROUNDS; CHAPTER ONE ; The Three Estates: A Collective Biography; CHAPTER TWO ; A Revolution of the Mind?; CHAPTER THREE; The Political Apprenticeship; PART TWO: ORIGINS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY DYNAMIC; CHAPTER FOUR ; The Creation of the National Assembly; CHAPTER FIVE ; The Experience of Revolution; CHAPTER SIX ; Factional Formation and the Revolutionary Dynamic: August to November; PART THREE: POLITICS AND REVOLUTION; CHAPTER SEVEN ; The Deputies as Lawgivers.

CHAPTER EIGHT Jacobins and Capuchins: The Revolutionary Dynamic Through April 1790; CHAPTER NINE; To End a Revolution; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX I; Marriage Dowries of Deputies in Livres; APPENDIX II; Estimated Deputy Fortunes and Incomes in Livres at the End of the Old Regime; APPENDIX III; Leading Deputy Speakers during the National Assembly; SOURCES; INDEX.

Here Timothy Tackett tests some of the diverse explanations of the origins of the French Revolution by examining the psychological itineraries of the individuals who launched it--the deputies of the Estates General and the National Assembly. Based on a wide variety of sources, notably the letters and diaries of over a hundred deputies, the book assesses their collective biographies and their cultural and political experience before and after 1789. In the face of the current ""revisionist"" orthodoxy, it argues that members of the Third Estate differed dramatically from the Nobility in wealt.

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