As the preface says, this is not a history of the Revolution, but a picture of life in Paris under it. It does not treat the history of the National Convention, but it lists various delegations to it;the Commune; the reception of Monroe as American minister; the events of the first half of 1794; love-letters of a revolutionary journalist, Madame Roland, and the emigres; the British in Paris; the promised letters of the convicted; the fall of Rovespierre; and the fate of the Committee of Public Safety. Appendices on the profanation of tombs, the Revolutionary Calendar; showing that certain revolutionary phrases were not originial with the men associated with them; and the errors in Carlyle's history.

• PREFACE (page 7)
• CONTENTS (page 11)
• ADDENDA (page 15)
• PARIS IN 1789-94: CHAPTER I THE PARIS OF THE REVOLUTION, AND WHAT REMAINS OF IT (page 17)
• CHAPTER II: DEPUTATIONS OF THE ASSEMBLIES (page 67)
• CHAPTER III: THE PARIS COMMUNE (page 134)
• CHAPTER IV: THE PARIS SECTONS (page 165)
• CHAPTER V: PARIS DAY BY DAY (page 211)
• CHAPTER VI: LIFE IN PARIS (page 267)
• CHAPTER VII: AMOR OMNIA VINCIT (page 303)
• CHAPTER VIII: THE BRITISH COLONY IN PARIS (page 340)
• CHAPTER IX: PRISON DOCUMENTS (page 380)
• CHAPTER X: PRISON DOCUMENTS (page 400)
• CHAPTER XI: THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE (page 455)
• CHAPTER XII: THE FATE OF THE REVOLUTIONISTS (page 506)
• APPENDICES (page 535)
• APPENDIX A: PROFANATION OF TOMBS (page 537)
• APPENDIX B: CONCORDANCE OF GREGORIAN AND JACOBIN CALENDARS (page 541)
• APPENDIX C: REVOLUTIONARY PHRASES (page 543)
• APPENDIX D: CORRIGENDA IN CARLYLE'S "FRENCH REVOLUTION" (page 546)
• INDEX OF NAMES (page 557)