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Publication of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution. November 1790

Publication of Rousseau’s Emile and Social Contract. 1762

Publication of Tocqueville’s Old Régime and the French Regime and Guizot’s History of the English Revolution. 1856

Reinstatement of Louis XVI. July 16, 1791

Release of large numbers of prisoners begins. August 5, 1794

Remodeling of parlements by Maupeou. 1771

Republic proclaimed. September 22, 1792

Republican calendar shelved (10 Nivôse Year XIV); return to old calendar. December 31, 1805

Retreat from Moscow begins. October 25, 1812

Return to the emergency laws of the Terror. September 5, 1797