The French Revolution and the PeopleThe French Revolution of 1789 was the central event of modern history. Although the Revolution started with the resistance of a minority to absolutist government, it soon spread to involve the whole nation, including the men and women who made up by far the largest part of it - the peasantry, as well as townspeople and craftsmen, the poor and those living on the margins of society. The French Revolution and the People is a portrait of the common people of France, in the towns and in the countryside; in Paris and Lyon; in the Vendee, Brittany, Provence. Popular grievances and reactions affected the events and outcome of the Revolution at all stages, and in turn everyone in France was affected by the Revolution. The French Revolution and the People tells a vivid story of conflict, violence and death, as the injustices of the Ancien Regime were thrown off. |
Contents
Artisans | 29 |
The Margins | 53 |
From Crisis to Constitution | 79 |
Revolution and Reordering | 113 |
The Widening Gulf | 135 |
The Politics of Conflict | 157 |
The Year of Civil War | 191 |
Terror and Reaction | 215 |
Revolution against the People? | 241 |
Notes | 259 |
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action active amongst areas aristocratic artisans assignats August authorities Bordeaux brigands Brittany Catholic cent centres chapter Chouans church Cited classes club communities compagnonnage conflict continued Convention counter-revolution counter-revolutionary crowds demands district duc d'Orléans early economic eighteenth century electoral elite émigrés Estates-General Faubourg Saint-Antoine fear feudal forces France French Revolution further Gardes Françaises Girondins grain groups guild Hébertist household increasingly individual Jacobin Club Jacobins journeymen July June king labour land later levée en masse lived livres Loire Lyon Marat Marseille masters military Montagnard months municipal National Assembly National Guard Nîmes non-jurors official Old Regime organised Oxford Palais-Royal Paris parish Parisian patriots peasantry peasants police political popular population priests protest radical region Republic republican Révolution française revolutionary rioting royal rumours rural sans-culotte sections seigneurs September servants social society Terror Third Estate thousand threat towns trade troops urban Vendée village violence women workers
References to this book
The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France David Andress No preview available - 2006 |