The French Revolution And First Empire: An Historical Sketch

1892. With an appendix upon the bibliography of the subject and a course of study by Honorable Andrew D. White. Morris's objective for this sketch is to describe the principal facts of the French Revolution and First Empire for the period of trouble and war in France between 1789 to 1815. Contents: State of France Before the Revolution; The States-General and National Assembly; The Constitution of 1790-I.; The Legislative Assembly; The Convention, To the Fall of the Moderates; The Reign of Terror. War. Fall of Robespierre; Thermidor. French Conquests; The Directory. Bonaparte; Egypt and the 18th Brumaire; Marengo. Luneville. Amiens; The Consulate. Renewal of War; The Empire to Tilsit. The Empire to 1813; Fall of Napoleon; and The Hundred Days and Waterloo.