Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translations and Abbreviations -- Reimagining Politics after the Terror -- Introduction -- 1 The Constitution of the Year III -- 2 The Post-Terror Discourse of Moeurs -- 3 Liberal Republicanism during the Directory -- 4 A Republican Empire? Debate on Expansion, 1794 - 99 -- 5 Liberal Authoritarianism and the Constitution of the Year VIII -- 6 Liberal Republicanism and Dissent against Bonaparte -- Epilogue The Fate of French Liberal Republicanism -- Index.