The Sans-Culottes : The Popular Movement and Revolutionary Government, 1793-1794.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soboul, Albert.

Contributor:

Hall, Rémy Inglis.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1981.

Summary:

A riveting portrait of the radical and militant partisans who changed the course of the French RevolutionA phenomenon of the preindustrial age, the sans-culottes—master craftsmen, shopkeepers, small merchants, domestic servants—were as hostile to the ideas of capitalist bourgeoisie as they were to those of the ancien régime that was overthrown in the first years of the French Revolution. For half a decade, their movement exerted a powerful control over the central wards of Paris and other large commercial centers, changing the course of the revolution. Here is a detailed portrait of who these people were and a sympathetic account of their moment in history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION: BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION AND POPULAR ACTIVITY

THE REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR

THE PARISIAN SECTIONS (from a 1790 map)

Historical Table of the Parisian Sections May 21, 1790-19 Vendémiaire, year iv

I POPULAR MASSES AND MILITANT SANS CULOTTES: THEIR ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COMPOSITION

1. The Popular Consciousness of Social Antagonisms

2. Statistical Data

II THE SOCIAL ASPIRATIONS OF THE PARIS SANS CULOTTES

1. From the Right to Existence to “Equal Incomes"

2. From “Equal Incomes” to Restrictions on Property Rights

3. The Sans-Culottes and Commercial Capital

4. Popular Fiscal Law

5. The Rights to Equal Work Opportunity and to Assistance

III THE POLITICAL INCLINATIONS OF THE PARISIAN SANS-CULOTTES

1. Popular Sovereignty

2. The Control and Recall of Elected Officers

3. The Permanence and Autonomy of the Sections

4. Insurrection

IV POPULAR POLITICS IN ACTION

1. Publicity, "The People's Protector ״

2. Unity as a Guarantee of Victory

3. Violence

V THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE PARIS SANS CULOTTES

1. The Sectional Assemblies

2. Sectional Committees and Their Officers

3. From Popular Societies to Sectional Societies

VI DAILY LIFE AMONG MILITANT SANS CULOTTES

CONCLUSION: ON THE POPULAR MOVEMENT AND REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT: A SUMMARY OF POLITICAL CONTRADICTIONS

INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780691268354

0691268355

OCLC:

1434176165