Ultraroyalism in Toulouse

From Its Origins to the Revolution of 1830
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3181-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

Originally published in 1973. Ultraroyalism in Toulouse examines in detail the origins of ultraroyal hostility to the social and political changes rendered by the French Revolution. France has produced a variety of theories of decline, corresponding to the nation's changing political fortunes in Europe and the world. The Revolution represented another, at least temporary, victory of the state apparatus over local community and privilege, and it stimulated the longing, apparent in all parts of the country after the fall of Napoleon, for a return to older forms of society and government that were essentially provincial and rural. The stevedores of Marseille, the fisherman of Brittany, and the peasants of the Auvergne saw plainly enough that the Revolution had not solved the problems of poverty and economic distress. Like the nobles, the ex-parlementarians, and the descendants of local oligarchies, they were hostile to the ascendancy of Paris. On all levels of French society were those who selectively remembered the best of the Old Regime, dwelt on the most obvious failures of the Revolution's religious and welfare policies, and blamed facile utilitarians who did not understand tradition for the destruction of the pre-1789 institutions. This book examines in depth the form that ultraroyalism took in Toulouse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Higgs, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Sketch-map of Restoration Toulouse

Introduction

Chapter 1. Lous Seignous

Chapter 2. The Revolution: Sans Religiou

Chapter 3. From Bonaparte to the Bourbons

Chapter 4. Restoration Toulouse and the Ultras

Chapter 5. Local Government and the Ultras

Chapter 6. Law, Order, and the Ultras in Toulouse, 1815-1830

Chapter 7. The Ulba Mind

Chapter 8. The July Revolution and Legitimism in Toulouse

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Higgs, David
David Higgs was a professor of history at the University of Toronto. He specialized in social history, political history, queer studies, and cultural history in the Atlantic world. He also authored Ultraroyalism in Toulouse: From Its Origins to the Revolution of 1830.

David Higgs was a professor of history at the University of Toronto. He specialized in social history, political history, queer studies, and cultural history in the Atlantic world. He also authored Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France.