This course provides an examination of the uneven development of a revolutionary tradition in France. We will follow the attempts to define, deny, foreclose, and revise the Revolution from its explosion in 1789 through the end of the Napoleonic regime in 1815. A strong historiographic focus will direct our attention to the gendered nature of the revolutionary project; the tension between liberty and equality that runs throughout French history; the intersection of race and citizenship in both the French and Haitian revolutions; and the plausibility of competing social, political, and cultural interpretations of the Revolution.