Chapter VI: The Birth of the Terrible Paris Commune

I. Indignation of the Constitutionalists. II. Pressure on the King. III. The Girondins have worked for the benefit of the Jacobins. IV. Vain attempts of the Girondins to put it down. V. Evening of August 8. VI. Nights of August 9 and 10. VII. August 10. VIII. State of Paris in the Interregnum.

BOOK THIRD. THE SECOND STAGE OF THE CONQUEST.

CHAPTER I. TERROR I. Government by gangs in times of anarchy. II. The development of the ideas of killings in the mass of the party. III. Terror is their Salvation. IV. Date of the determination of this. The actors and their parts. V. Abasement and Stupor. VI. Jacobin Massacre.

CHAPTER II. THE DEPARTMENTS. I. The Sovereignty of the People. II. In several departments it establishes itself in advance. III. Each Jacobin band a dictator in its own neighborhood. IV. Ordinary practices of the Jacobin dictatorship. V. The companies of traveling volunteers. VI. A tour of France in the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior.

CHAPTER III. SECOND STAGE OF THE JACOBIN CONQUEST I. The second stage of the Jacobin conquest. II. The elections. III. Composition and tone of the secondary assemblies. IV. Composition of the National Convention. V. The Jacobins forming alone the Sovereign People. VI. Composition of the party. VII. The Jacobin Chieftains.