Sans-Culottes
Subtitle: The Popular Movement and Revolutionary Government
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: November 1980
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780691053202
Subjects: France - History; Revolutions; France; History; Paris (France); Revolution, 1789-1799; Revolution, 1793-1794; Sansculottes
First sentence: From June 1793 to February 1794, the Parisian sansculottes movement allowed the consolidation of the revolutionary government and the organization of the dictatorship of public safety, while at the same time imposing upon a reluctant Convention economic measures considered right for ameliorating the lot of the masses.