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A show of hands for the republic : opinion, information, and repression in eighteenth-century rural France /

In 1796, Thomas Bordas was indicted for ""seditious speech"" after proposing a simple vote -- a ""show of hands""--To determine who wanted a republic, and who wanted a king. In 'A Show of Hands for the Republic', Jill Maciak Walshaw uses hundreds of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walshaw, Jill Maciak (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014.
Series:Changing perspectives on early modern Europe.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • La France profonde? : news and political information in the village
  • From Émotion Populaire to seditious words : rural protest in the Ancien Régime
  • Bringing them into the fold : the struggle against ignorance and dissent in the French Revolution
  • "Long live Louis XVII" : the prosecution of seditious speech during the French Revolution
  • Tricksters, dupes, and drunkards : truth and untruth in the search for rural political opinion.