Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution

Summary: Explores the French Revolution in terms of the vitality and infatuation with technology that motivated French citizenry toward change and the conflicting, strained economics frustrating their visions for France.

Record details

ISBN: 0679726101
ISBN: 9780679726104
Physical Description: print
xx, 948 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1990.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 879-906) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: Powers of recall: forty years later -- PART ONE: ALTERATIONS: THE FRANCE OF LOUIS XVI: New men -- Blue horizons, red ink -- Absolutism attacked -- The cultural construction of a citizen -- The cost of modernity -- PART TWO: EXPECTATIONS: Body politics -- Suicides, 1787-1788 -- Grievances, Autumn 1788-Spring 1789 -- Improving a nation -- Bastille, July 1789 -- PART THREE: Reason and unreason, July-November 1789 -- Acts of faith, October 1789-July 1790 -- Departures, August 1790-July 1791 -- "Marsellaise": September 1791-August 1792 -- Impure blood, August 1792--January 1793 -- PART FOUR: VIRTUE AND DEATH: Enemies of the people? Winter-Spring 1793 -- "Terror is the order of the day" -- The politics of turpitude -- Chiliasm, April-July 1794 -- Epilogue.