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The people's armies : the armées révolutionnaires, instrument of the terror in the departments, April 1793 to floréal year II / Richard Cobb ; translated by Marianne Elliott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobb, Richard, 1917-1996.
- Standardized Title:
- Armées révolutionnaires. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--History--Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
- France.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 776 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- In this classic book, the famed historian Richard Cobb describes the Armées Révolutionnaires of eighteenth-century France and their clashes with the anti-revolutionary rural populace. In so doing, he provides important insights into the social and administrative history of the French Revolution. First published in France and now translated into English by Marianne Elliott, The People's Armies has had a profound influence on the study of the French Revolution and is still unsurpassed as a history of an important institution of the period of Revolutionary government in France.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Armées révolutionnaires.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 633-753.
- ISBN:
- 0300027281
- 0300040423
- OCLC:
- 15654811
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