Timothy Tackett (born 1945) is an American historian specializing in the

French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in coup of 18 Brumaire, November 1799. Many of its ...

and professor emeritus at the

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. His 1996 book about the members of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789 won the

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of the

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in 2001; he has also written about the Flight to Varennes and the emergence of

the Terror The Reign of Terror (french: link=no, la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, ...

amid the turbulence of the Revolution. He wrote a book called, "The coming of the terror in the French Revolution".

Works

* ''Priest & Parish in Eighteenth-Century France: A Social and Political Study of the Cures in a Diocese of Dauphine, 1750-1791'', Princeton University Press, 1977, 368 p. * ''La Révolution, l'Église, la France'', Cerf, 1986. * ''Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France: The Ecclesiastical Oath of 1791'', Princeton University Press, 1986, 448 p. * ' 'The West in France in 1789: The Religious Factor in the Origins of the Counterrevolution'', Journal of Modern History 54 (1982): 715-45 * ''Par la volonté du peuple, comment les députés sont devenus révolutionnaires'', Albin Michel, 1997. * ''Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790)'', Princeton University Press, 1997, 355 p. * ''When the King Took Flight'', Cambridge:

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, 2003. * ''Le Roi s'enfuit - Varennes et l'origine de la Terreur'', Éditions La Découverte, 2004. * Stewart J. Brown, Timothy Tackett (ed.), ''The Cambridge History of Christianity (vol 7): Enlightenment, Reawakening And Revolution 1660-1815'',

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, 2006, 694 p. * ''The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution'', Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. * ''The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution'',

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, 2021.

References

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University of California, Irvine Faculty Biography
* 1945 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of the French Revolution American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub