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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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Auteur principal: Walshaw, Jill Maciak (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • La France profonde? : news and political information in the village
  • From Émotion Populaire to seditious words : rural protest in the Ancien Regime
  • 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.