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The gilded youth of Thermidor /

In this historical account of the Thermidorian Reaction following the fall of Robespierre in July of 1794, Francois Gendron describes how the sans-culottes - the lower-class radicals who had been the mainspring and vanguard of the French Revolution - were crushed, and analyses the role played by the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gendron, François
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1993.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Foreword to the French Edition
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Awakening of Moderate Opinion
  • 2 The Political and Social Reaction
  • 3 The March toward Insurrection
  • 4 The Defeat of the Sans-Culottes
  • 5 The Failure of the Bourgeois Reaction
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography