Ça Ira! or Danton in the French Revolution: A Study by Laurence Gronlund. Lee and Shepard Publishers, Boston. 1887.

Contents: Introduction: A Key to the French Revolution, CHAPTER I) The Rising Generation, Liberty and Law, The Drama of History, The “Sacred Torch” passes from England to France, The Revolution made by Books, Danton’s Youth, June 17, Ca Ira!, CHAPTER II) The Middle-class Regime, The Counter-Revolution, August 4, The Constitution of ’91, Danton the First Republican, The Doings of the French Bourgeoisie, CHAPTER III) The Counter-Revolution Crushed, Conspiracy, August 10, Invasion, September Massacres, War of Propaganda, Louis’ Head ‘a Gage of Battle’, CHAPTER IV) Energy of the Year II, Revolutionary Tribunal, Committee of Public Welfare, May 31, Danton as Statesman, Absolute Government. Levy en Masse, Danton’s Resignation, La Carmagnole, CHAPTER V) Fraternity of the Jacobins, Constitution of ’93, The Maximum, A Poor-Law, Down with Speculators!, Education, The Civil Code, A Great Wrong, “Private Enterprise” indispensable, CHAPTER VI) Terror, Hebertism, Pity, April 5, Danton disinterested, Dans le Neant, “Nothingness” (?), The Incorruptible, Monsieur!, CHAPTER VII) The Present Transition State, Plutocrats again in Power, 18th Brumaire, “Thou hast been Weighed and found Wanting”, Present Tendencies of Societies, In Proportion as the Mental Preparation is Complete Will the Coming Revolution be Easy, “God wills it.” 260 pages.

Laurence Gronlund (1846-1899) was a Danish-born US socialist who joined the Socialist Labor Party in 1878 shortly after its founding. A writer, historian and translator, Gronlund was a leading member of the SLP in the 1880s, writing many of the Party’s most important texts, but broke with them in 1890, ostensibly over their position on alcohol. Some of his writngs were extremely influential on later thinkers like Edward Bellamy and Julius Wayland. Gronlund increasingly embraced Fabianism and a Christian Socialism in his later years.

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