Timothy Tackett (born 1945) is an American historian specializing in the
French Revolution and professor emeritus at the
University of California, Irvine
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.
His 1996 book about the members of the
National Constituent Assembly of 1789 won the
Leo Gershoy Award The Leo Gershoy Award is a book prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best publication in English dealing with the history of Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Endowed in 1975 by the Gershoy family and first ...
of the
American Historical Association
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in 2001; he has also written about the
Flight to Varennes
The Flight to Varennes (French: fuite de Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which the French royal family—comprising Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, the Dauphin Louis Charles, ...
and the emergence of
the Terror
The Reign of Terror (French: ''La Terreur'', literally "The Terror") 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 ...
amid the turbulence of the 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:
Harvard University Press
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The pres ...
, 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'',
Cambridge University Press
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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'',
Oxford University Press
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, 2021.
References
External links
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
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