The crowd in the French Revolution
By: by George Rudé
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Copyright date: 1967
Subjects: Revolution (France : 1789-1799) fast (OCoLC)fst01354514; Social aspects; Economic aspects; Franse Revolutie; Economics; Crowds; History
Description: What kinds of people were in the crowds that stormed the Bastille, marched to Versailles to bring the king and queen back to Paris, overthrew the monarchy in August 1792, or impassively witnessed the downfall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor? Who led these crowds or mobilized them to action? What did they hope to achieve, and how far were their aims realized?... Using police records and other contemporary research materials, the author identifies the social groups represented in them, contrasts the crowds with their political leaders, relates their activities to underlying economic and psychological tensions, and compares the Parisian crowd "patterns" to those of other popular movements in France and Britain during the 18th and early 19th centuries. --From back cover.
Notes: Reprinted with an expanded glossary and an added section, translation of passages in French.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-275) and index [277]-283.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Introduction; title: Paris on the eve of the revolution.; title: pt. 2. The revolutionary crowd in action. Prelude to revolution ; July 1789 ; The march to Versailles ; The 'massacre' of the Champ De Mars ; The fall of the monarchy ; The triumph of the mountain ; Thermidor ; Germinal-Prairial ; Vendémiaire.; title: pt. 3. The anatomy of the revolutionary crowd. The composition of revolutionary crowds, 1787-95 ; The motives of revolutionary crowds ; The generation of revolutionary activity ; The 'revolutionary crowd' in history.; title: Appendixes. Paris sections of 1790-5 ; The population of the Paris sections in 1791-5 ; Paris sections and insurgents of 1787-95 ; Paris trades and insurgents of 1787-95 ; Parisian insurgents and rioters of 1775-95 ; The revolutionary calendar ; Prices and wages in Paris 1789-93.