One of the central questions of the French Revolution is what happened to the country from the time the monarchy collapsed in the summer of 1792, when the prospects for popular democracy seemed brightest, to the Terror of 1793-94, when the Committee of Public Safety ruled by fiat and repression. A key moment during this interim period was the so-called Federalist Revolt, when four provincial cities--Caen, Bordeaux, Lyon, and Marseille--rebelled against the more radical revolutionaries in Paris, threatening to plunge France into civil war. Over the years some very good work has been...
One of the central questions of the French Revolution is what happened to the country from the time the monarchy collapsed in the summer of 1792, w...
The French Revolution remains the most examined event and period in world history. Most historians would argue that it was the first "modern" revolution, an event so momentous that it changed the very meaning of the word revolution to its current connotation of a political and/or social upheaval that marks a decisive break with the past, moving the society in a forward or progressive direction. No revolution has occurred since 1789 without making reference to this first revolution, and most have been measured against it. When revolution shook the foundations of the Old Regime in France, shock...
The French Revolution remains the most examined event and period in world history. Most historians would argue that it was the first "modern" revoluti...
One of the central questions of the French Revolution is what happened to the country from the time the monarchy collapsed in the summer of 1792, when the prospects for popular democracy seemed brightest, to the Terror of 1793-94, when the Committee of Public Safety ruled by fiat and repression. A key moment during this interim period was the so-called Federalist Revolt, when four provincial cities--Caen, Bordeaux, Lyon, and Marseille--rebelled against the more radical revolutionaries in Paris, threatening to plunge France into civil war. Over the years some very good work has been...
One of the central questions of the French Revolution is what happened to the country from the time the monarchy collapsed in the summer of 1792, w...
The French Revolution remains the most examined event, or period, in world history. It was, most historians would argue, the first "modern" revolution, an event so momentous that it changed the very meaning of the word revolution, from "restoration," as in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England, to its modern sense of connoting a political and/or social upheaval that marks a decisive break with the past, one that moves a society in a forward, or progressive, direction. No revolution has occurred since 1789 without making reference to this first revolution, and most have been measured...
The French Revolution remains the most examined event, or period, in world history. It was, most historians would argue, the first "modern" revolution...
