Sans-culottes
Subtitle: an eighteenth-century emblem in the French Revolution
By: Michael Sonenscher.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9780691124988
Subjects: Sansculottes; Symbolism in politics -- France -- History -- 18th century; Politics and culture -- France -- History -- 18th century; France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-474) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "One of the most interesting pairs of breeches recorded in modern history"; title: An ingenious emblem; title: Diogenes and Rousseau: music, morality, and society; title: Property, equality, and the passions in eighteenth-century French thought; title: The entitlements of merit; title: Conclusion: democracy and terror.