The revolutionary temper Paris, 1748-1789
When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a falterin...
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company
[2024]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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- Introduction: An early information society and collective consciousness
- Part one: The mid-century crisis, 1748-1754. War and peace
- A prince is mugged by order of the king
- Songs bring down the government
- Saints are sent to hell
- The people seize the city
- The politics of tax avoidance
- The world of knowledge is mapped and suppressed
- Part two: The expanding public sphere, 1762-1764. The peace is rained out
- A big idea goes bust
- The Jesuits are crushed
- Rousseau releases a flood of tears
- Voltaire occupies the high moral ground
- Recycling royal mistresses
- Part three: The turning point in politics, 1770-1775. Enter Marie-Antoinette, exit Choiseul
- A coup d'état
- Beaumarchais has the last laugh
- The king is dead, long live Maurepas
- Four war
- Part four: The ideological terrain, 1781-1786. The king's secret is revealed
- The taste of victory
- What is an American?
- Man can fly
- Man can cure all disease
- Does everything end with songs?
- The dark secrets of despotism
- Did the cardinal try to cuckold the king?
- The poor march on Versailles
- Part five: Tremors, 1787. Battles on the Bourse
- Despotism in the marriage bed
- The notables say no
- A minister runs for cover
- The parlement plays politics
- Part six: The collapse of the régime, 1788. A new coup, an old script
- The clergy won't pay
- The provinces take fire
- Bayonets in the streets
- Hailstones big as eggs
- The ministers are roasted
- Necker to the rescue
- The cruelest winter
- Part seven: The eruption of the revolution, 1789. Summon the nation
- Pamphlets and public noises
- The people vote
- Paris explodes
- The nation seizes sovereignty
- The Bastille is stormed
- Conclusion: The revolutionary temper
- Afterword: What was revolutionary about the French Revolution?
