Massacre At The Champ De Mars

Author : David Andress
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843838425

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Massacre at the Champ de Mars by David Andress Pdf

On 17 July 1791 the revolutionary National Guard of Paris opened fire on a crowd of protesters: citizens believing themselves patriots trying to save France from the reinstatement of a traitor king. To the National Guard and their political superiors the protesters were the dregs of the people, brigands paid by counter-revolutionary aristocrats. Politicians and journalists declared the National Guard the patriots, and their action a heroic defence of the fledgling Constitution. Under the Jacobin Republic of 1793, however, this "massacre" was regarded as a high crime, a moment of truth in which a corrupt elite exposed its treasonable designs. This detailed study of the events of July 1791 and their antecedents seeks to understand how Parisians of different classes understood "patriotism", and how it was that their different answers drove them to confront each other on the Champ de Mars. David Andress is Professor of Modern History at the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth.

Author : Cara Black
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616952877

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Murder on the Champ de Mars by Cara Black Pdf

A dying woman has secret about the unsolved murder of Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc’s father, but is kidnapped before she can reveal it Paris, April 1999: Aimée Leduc has her work cut out for her—running her detective agency and fighting off sleep deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bébé. The last thing she has time for now is to take on a personal investigation for a poor manouche (Gypsy) boy. But he insists his dying mother has an important secret she needs to tell Aimée, something to do with Aimée’s father’s unsolved murder a decade ago. How can she say no? The dying woman’s secret is even more dangerous than her son realized. When Aimée arrives at the hospital, the boy’s mother has disappeared. She was far too sick to leave on her own—she must have been abducted. What does she know that’s so important it’s worth killing for? And will Aimée be able to find her before it’s too late and the medication keeping her alive runs out?

Author : Timothy Tackett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674044203

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When the King Took Flight by Timothy Tackett Pdf

On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style. The king's flight opens a window to the whole of French society during the Revolution. Each dramatic chapter spotlights a different segment of the population, from the king and queen as they plotted and executed their flight, to the people of Varennes who apprehended the royal family, to the radicals of Paris who urged an end to monarchy, to the leaders of the National Assembly struggling to control a spiraling crisis, to the ordinary citizens stunned by their king's desertion. Tackett shows how Louis's flight reshaped popular attitudes toward kingship, intensified fears of invasion and conspiracy, and helped pave the way for the Reign of Terror. Tackett brings to life an array of unique characters as they struggle to confront the monumental transformations set in motion in 1789. In so doing, he offers an important new interpretation of the Revolution. By emphasizing the unpredictable and contingent character of this story, he underscores the power of a single event to change irrevocably the course of the French Revolution, and consequently the history of the world.

Author : David Andress
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1852855401

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The French Revolution and the People by David Andress Pdf

The French Revolution of 1789 was the central event of modern history. For the first time a major nation fell prey to political and then social revolution, with civil war and the Reign of Terror following the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793. Although the Revolution started with the resistance of a minority to absolutist government, it soon spread to involve the whole nation, including the men and women who made up by far the largest part of it - the peasantry, as well as towns and craftsmen, the poor and those living on the margins of society. The French Revolution and the People is a portrait of the common people of France, in the towns and in the countryside; in Paris and Lyon; in the Vendee, Britanny, Provence. Popular grievances and reactions affected the events and outcome of the Revolution at all stages, and in turn everyone in France was affected by the Revolution. The French Revolution and the People is a vivid story of conflict, violence and death, but there were winners as well as losers and not all the suffering was in vain, as the injustices of the Ancien Regime were thrown off.

Author : Rachel Hammersley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : France
ISBN : 0861932730

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French Revolutionaries and English Republicans by Rachel Hammersley Pdf

Following the cataclysmic events of 1789 some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas developed about the form this should take and the models on which it could be based, from those of ancient Greece and Rome, to modern republics such as Geneva or the United States of America. However, a small number of thinkers - centred around the radical, Paris-based Cordeliers Club - looked to the writings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republicans for guidance about realising ancient republican ideals in the modern world. This book offers an intellectual history of the Club, through a close analysis of texts and the relationships between their authors. Its main focus is on individual club members and their translations of and borrowings from the works of such thinkers as Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Algernon Sidney and Thomas Gordon: the author shows how the Cordeliers adapted and developed those ideas so as to make them serve contemporary circumstances and concerns, and demonstrates that even after the establishment of a French republic in 1792, members of the Cordeliers Club continued to make use of English republican ideas in order to respond to key constitutional and political questions.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1814
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030037344795

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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke Pdf

Author : Jean-Numa Ducange
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004384798

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The French Revolution and Social Democracy by Jean-Numa Ducange Pdf

In The French Revolution and Social Democracy Jean-Numa Ducange explores the important legacy of the French Revolution, and its different interpretations, in the culture of German-speaking social democracy.

Author : Albert Soboul
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 0691007829

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The Sans-culottes by Albert Soboul Pdf

A phenomenon of the pre-industrial age, the Sans-Culottes--master craftsmen, shopkeepers, small merchants, domestic servants--were as hostile to the ideas of capitalist bourgeoisie as they were to those of the ancien regime which was overthrown in the first years of the Revolution. Here is a detailed portrait of who these people were and a sympathetic account of their moment in history.

Author : Gary Kates
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400854974

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The Cercle Social, the Girondins, and the French Revolution by Gary Kates Pdf

Gary Kates reconstructs the history of the Cercle Social, a group of writers and politicians who wielded considerable influence during the French Revolution and whose pioneering interest in women's rights and land reform made their club one of the most progressive in Revolutionary Paris. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Bertha Meriton Gardiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049355501

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The French Revolution 1789-1795 by Bertha Meriton Gardiner Pdf

Author : William L. Pressly
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520211960

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The French Revolution as Blasphemy by William L. Pressly Pdf

This is a book about two paintings that were meant to turn the English against the French Revolution by showing its worst excesses--a world in which religious piety and racial, class, and gender hierarchies are turned upside down.

Author : Micah Alpaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107082793

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Non-Violence and the French Revolution by Micah Alpaugh Pdf

Challenging scholarly emphasis on French Revolutionary violence, this book instead examines the prevalence of peaceful, democratic methods in Parisian protest.

Author : Hippolyte Taine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011919250

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“The” French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine Pdf

Author : William Doyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199559855

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Aristocracy and Its Enemies in the Age of Revolution by William Doyle Pdf

Doyle describes how the French revolutionaries tried to abolish the nobility, analysing the intellectual roots of hostility to nobles, the steps by which revolutionaries turned against aristocracy, the impact of persecution, and the long-term consequences of these developments for the nobility.

Author : Marie-Louise-Sophie de Grouchy marquise de Condorcet,Karin Brown,James Edward McClellan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : France
ISBN : UCSC:32106020003593

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Letters on Sympathy (1798) by Marie-Louise-Sophie de Grouchy marquise de Condorcet,Karin Brown,James Edward McClellan Pdf