| Preface | |
| 1 | A Boy and His Parents in the French Revolution | 3 |
| Schoolboy in Paris | |
| Letters from His Mother | |
| Radicalization | |
| A Jacobin Family | |
| Sojourn in England | |
| A Regicide Father | |
| 2 | Young Agent of the Terror | 31 |
| Serving the Committee of Public Safety | |
| Mission to the West | |
| Letters to Robespierre and Others | |
| Horrors in the Vendee | |
| Terror at Bordeaux | |
| 3 | Democrat among the "Anarchists" | 63 |
| Acceptance of Thermidor | |
| Imprisoned with Babeuf | |
| Rejection of "Communism" | |
| Editing the Orateur Plebeien | |
| Revolution beyond France | |
| 4 | Bonaparte - Italy - Egypt - Naples | 76 |
| Serving General Bonararte | |
| Editing the Courrier de l'Armee d'Italie | |
| Fructidor | |
| Revolution in Italy | |
| The Cisalpine and Neapolitan Republics | |
| 5 | For and Against Napoleon | 93 |
| Self-Appointed Adviser to Bonaparte | |
| Hopes for Consolidation of the Revolution | |
| Serving the Empire | |
| Growing Doubts | |
| Disillusionment | |
| Writings to Overthrow Napoleon | |
| 6 | The Hundred Days | 119 |
| Acceptance of Napoleon's Return from Elba | |
| For a Liberal Empire | |
| Waterloo | |
| Defiance of Allied Invaders | |
| 7 | Constitutional Monarchist | 133 |
| Acceptance of the Monarchy | |
| Liberal Pamphleteering | |
| Self-Justification | |
| Attempts at Election to Chamber of Deputies | |
| Revolution of 1830 | |
| Advice against the Republic | |
| 8 | Theorist of Education | 151 |
| Education and Politics | |
| Schooling and Political Economy | |
| And for Social Classes | |
| And for Prevention of Revolution | |
| Pestalozzi | |
| Fellenberg | |
| Comparative Education | |
| 9 | Apostle of Civilization | 175 |
| Classification of the Sciences | |
| Editing the Revue Encydopedique | |
| International Scope | |
| America | |
| Steamships and Railroads | |
| Frankenstein | |
| German Idealism | |
| Robert Owen's New Lanark | |
| 10 | The Later Years | 200 |
| Persistence of the Past | |
| Memories of His Mother | |
| More Disappointments | |
| Learned Societies | |
| The American Philosophical Society | |
| Electoral Reform | |
| Fortification of Paris | |
| The Amazon | |
| 1848: Vive La Republique! | |
| References | 227 |
| Index | 241 |
