Massacre at the Champ de Mars : popular dissent and political culture in the French Revolution /
On 17 July 1791 the revolutionary National Guard of Paris opened fire on a crowd of protesters: citizens believing themselves patriots trying to save France from the reinstatement of a traitor king. To the National Guard and their political superiors the protesters were the dregs of the people, brig...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
Royal Historical Society : Boydell Press,
2000.
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Colección: | Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The people of Paris and their historians
- Aristocrats, priests and brigands: January-February 1791
- Guards, spies, and commissaires: policing the capital
- Plots, pamphlets and crowds: February-April 1791
- The Saint-cloud affair and the wages movement
- Before and after Varennes: the rise in popular hostility
- The Constitution in the balance: events after the king's return
- 17 July 1791: massacre and consternation
- After the bloody field: commentaries, narratives and dissent.