Massacre at the Champ de Mars - Popular Dissent and Political Culture in the French Revolution

The massacre exposed the widely differing ways in which post-Revolutionary Parisians construed the word "patriotism", and why the great Revolutionary goal of political unanimity was so elusive.

List of contents

Introduction
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

About the author

David Andress

Product details

• Authors: David Andress
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2013
• EAN: 9781843838425
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-842-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Royal Historical Society Studi; Royal Historical Society Studi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918