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

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-86193-247-4
Verlag: Royal Historical Society

Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 17, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 738 g

Reihe: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andress, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Über Autor(innen)

Andress, David
Associate Dean (Research) and Professor of Modern History, School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth