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Massacre at the Champ de Mars
Popular Dissent and Political Culture in the French Revolution
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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 senior lecturer in Modern European History, University of Portsmouth.
Boydell & Brewer; January 2000
250 pages; ISBN 9781846150074
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250 pages; ISBN 9781846150074
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Subject categories
- Academic > History > History of France > History > By period > Modern, 1515- > Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1789-1815
- Academic > History > History of France > General
- Political Science > Civil Rights
- Political Science > Political Freedom & Security
- History > France
- History > Europe
- Social Science
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9781846150074
9780861932474
1846150078
