Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Strict Rules of Each History of the Revolution, 1789-1815
2. Before the Revolutionary Past, 1815-1847
3. The National Myth and the Myth of Nations, 1848-1875
4. A Republican History, 1875-1914
5. The Revolutionary Use of History, 1914-1945
6. Revolutionary Orthodoxy and Historical Heresy, 1946-1989
Conclusion
Index