Murder in Aubagne : lynching, law, and justice during the French Revolution /

This book is a study of faction, lynching, murder, terror and counter-terror during the French Revolution. It examines factionalism in small towns like Aubagne near Marseille, and how this produced the murders and prison massacres of 1795-8. Another major theme is the convergence of lynching from be...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sutherland, Donald (Donald M. G.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Justice, Administration of > France > Aubagne > History > 18th century.
Justice, Administration of > France > History > 18th century.
Violence > France > Aubagne > History > 18th century.
Lynching > France > Aubagne > History > 18th century.
Executions and executioners > France > Aubagne > History > 18th century.
Violence > France > Aubagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Lynchage > France > Aubagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Justice > Administration > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY.
Atrocities
Executions and executioners
Justice, Administration of
Lynching
Social conditions
Violence
Aubagne (France) > History > 18th century.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Atrocities.
Aubagne (France) > Social conditions > 18th century.
France
France > Aubagne
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Aubagne : an introduction to the problem
  • Structures and events
  • The olive festival
  • Aubagne's universe : Marseille, Aix, and Arles, 1789-1792
  • Murders in Provence
  • Vigilantism and federalism
  • Federalism
  • Terror in a small town : Aubagne
  • The revolution of the antiterrorists : vengeance, massacre, and justice
  • The Bande d'Aubagne.

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