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| the old regime and the french revolution: The Old Regime and the Revolution Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856 |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I Alexis de Tocqueville, 1998-08-15 The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I Alexis de Tocqueville, 1998 The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most eminent scholars of Tocqueville and the French Revolution, Françoise Mélonio and the late François Furet, provides a brilliant analysis of the work. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Old Regime and the French Revolution Alexis de Tocqueville, 2010 This1856 volume constitutes one of the most important books ever written about the French Revolution. It explores the rebellion's origins and consequences, offering timeless insights into the pursuit of individual and political freedom. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 7 Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner, 1987-05-15 The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Old Régime and the French Revolution Alexis de Tocqueville, 1978 |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Old Regime and the Revolution Alexis De Tocqueville, 1998 |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Night the Old Regime Ended Michael P. Fitzsimmons, 2010-11-01 |
| the old regime and the french revolution: A World of Public Debts Nicolas Barreyre, Nicolas Delalande, 2020-10-26 This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective. It demonstrates that public debt has been a defining feature in the construction of modern states, a main driver in the history of capitalism, and a potent geopolitical force. From revolutionary crisis to empire and the rise and fall of a post-war world order, the problem of debt has never been the sole purview of closed economic circles. This book offers a key to understanding the centrality of public debt today by revealing that political problems of public debt have and will continue to need a political response. Today’s tendency to consider public debt as a source of fragility or economic inefficiency misses the fact that, since the eighteenth century, public debts and capital markets have on many occasions been used by states to enforce their sovereignty and build their institutions, especially in times of war. It is nonetheless striking to observe that certain solutions that were used in the past to smooth out public debt crises (inflation, default, cancellation, or capital controls) were left out of the political framing of the recent crisis, therefore revealing how the balance of power between bondholders, taxpayers, pensioners, and wage-earners has evolved over the past 40 years. Today, as the Covid-19 pandemic opens up a dramatic new crisis, reconnecting the history of capitalism and that of democracy seems one of the most urgent intellectual and political tasks of our time. This global political history of public debt is a contribution to this debate and will be of interest to financial, economic, and political historians and researchers. Chapters 13 and 19 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The French Idea of Freedom Dale Van Kley, 1995-04-01 “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789” is the French Revolution’s best known utterance. By 1789, to be sure, England looked proudly back to the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and a bill of rights, and even the young American Declaration of Independence and the individual states’ various declarations and bills of rights preceded the French Declaration. But the French deputies of the National Assembly tried hard, in the words of one of their number, not to receive lessons from others but rather “to give them” to the rest of the world, to proclaim not the rights of Frenchmen, but those “for all times and nations.” The chapters in this book treat mainly the origins of the Declaration in the political thought and practice of the preceding three centuries that Tocqueville designated the “Old Regime.” Among the topics covered are privileged corporations; the events of the three months preceding the Declaration; blacks, Jews, and women; the Assembly’s debates on the Declaration; the influence of sixteenth-century notions of sovereignty and the separation of powers; the rights of the accused in legal practices and political trials from 1716 to 1789; the natural rights to freedom of religion; and the monarchy’s “feudal” exploitation of the royal domain. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Old Regime and the Revolution Alexis De Tocqueville, 1998 |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Literary Underground of the Old Regime Robert Darnton, 1982 Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. By drawing on an ingenious selection of previously hidden sources, he reveals for the first time the fascinating story of this eighteenth-century counterculture that has virtually disappeared from history. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Feudalism, venality, and revolution Stephen Miller, 2020-10-27 According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king’s government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Coming of the French Revolution Georges Lefebvre, 2019-12-31 The classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French Revolution The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939 on the eve of the Second World War and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history “from below”—a Marxist approach—and in this book he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition offers perennial insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France Olivia Bloechl, 2017 From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique). In Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France, however, Olivia Bloechl reveals another layer of French opera’s political theater. The make-believe worlds on stage, she shows, involved not just fantasies of sovereign rule but also aspects of government. Plot conflicts over public conduct, morality, security, and law thus appear side-by-side with tableaus hailing glorious majesty. What’s more, opera’s creators dispersed sovereign-like dignity and powers well beyond the genre’s larger-than-life rulers and gods, to its lovers, magicians, and artists. This speaks to the genre’s distinctive combination of a theological political vocabulary with a concern for mundane human capacities, which is explored here for the first time. By looking at the political relations among opera characters and choruses in recurring scenes of mourning, confession, punishment, and pardoning, we can glimpse a collective political experience underlying, and sometimes working against, ancienrégime absolutism. Through this lens, French opera of the period emerges as a deeply conservative, yet also more politically nuanced, genre than previously thought. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Ancien Regime and the Revolution Alexis de Tocqueville, 2008-05-29 The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) is an objective observer of both periods – providing a merciless critique of the ancien régime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ways as tyrannical as that of the King; its once lofty and egalitarian ideals corrupted and forgotten. Writing in the 1850s, Tocqueville wished to expose the return to despotism he witnessed in his own time under Napoleon III, by illuminating the grand, but ultimately doomed, call to liberty made by the French people in 1789. His eloquent and instructive study raises questions about liberty, nationalism and justice that remain urgent today. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: A Literary Tour de France Robert Darnton, 2018 The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous Encyclop die, repository of reason and knowledge, to scandal-mongering libel and pornography. Historian and librarian Robert Darnton uses his exclusive access to a trove of documents-letters and documents from authors, publishers, printers, paper millers, type founders, ink manufacturers, smugglers, wagon drivers, warehousemen, and accountants-involving a publishing house in the Swiss town of Neuchatel to bring this world to life. Like other places on the periphery of France, Switzerland was a hotbed of piracy, carefully monitoring the demand for certain kinds of books and finding ways of fulfilling it. Focusing in particular on the diary of Jean-Fran ois Favarger, a traveling sales rep for a Swiss firm whose 1778 voyage, on horseback and on foot, around France to visit bookstores and renew accounts forms the spine of this story, Darnton reveals not only how the industry worked and which titles were in greatest demand, but the human scale of its operations. A Literary Tour de France is literally that. Darnton captures the hustle, picaresque comedy, and occasional risk of Favarger's travels in the service of books, and in the process offers an engaging, immersive, and unforgettable narrative of book culture at a critical moment in France's history. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Domestic Enemies Cissie Fairchilds, 2019-12-01 Originally published in 1983. This book cuts across the class boundaries of traditionally separate fields of social history. It investigates the social origins of servants, their incomes, their marriage and family patterns, their career patterns, their possibilities for social mobility, their political activities, and their criminality. But it also investigates the history of the family and domestic life in France in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, for servants were, at least until the rise of the affectionate nuclear family in the middle of the eighteenth century, considered part of the families of those they served. Finally, this book is also an essay on the history of social relationships in the ancien régime, not only those between masters and servants but also the broader relationships between the ruling elite and the lower classes. The introduction gives basic facts about the composition of households during the Old Regime and explores the attitudes and assumptions that underlay the employment of servants. It also shows how both these attitudes and the households themselves changed dramatically in the last decades before the French Revolution. Part 1 is devoted to the servants themselves. One chapter deals with their lives within their employers' households: their work, their living conditions, their socializing and leisure-time activities. A second examines their private lives: their social origins, marriage and family patterns, their moneymaking and their criminality. And a third explores their relationships with and attitudes toward their masters. In part 2, the focus shifts to an examination of master–servant relationships from the masters' point of view. The first chapter deals with master–servant relationships in general by discussing the factors that determined how employers treated their domestics. The second and third chapters explore two special relationships: masters' sexual relationships with their servants and their relationships with the servants who cared for them in childhood. The epilogue traces the impact of the French Revolution on domestic service and sketches some of the changes in the household that were to come in the nineteenth century. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution Joan B. Landes, 1988 In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the eighteenth century. She focuses on France, contrasting the role and representation of women under the Old Regime with their status during and after the Revolution. Basing her work on a wide reading of current historical scholarship, Landes draws on the work of Habermas and his followers, as well as on recent theories of representation, to re-create public-sphere theory from a feminist point of view.Within the extremely personal and patriarchal political culture of Old Regime France, elite women wielded surprising influence and power, both in the court and in salons. Urban women of the artisanal class often worked side by side with men and participated in many public functions. But the Revolution, Landes asserts, relegated women to the home, and created a rigidly gendered, essentially male, bourgeois public sphere. The formal adoption of universal rights actually silenced public women by emphasizing bourgeois conceptions of domestic virtue.In the first part of this book, Landes links the change in women's roles to a shift in systems of cultural representation. Under the absolute monarchy of the Old Regime, political culture was represented by the personalized iconic imagery of the father/king. This imagery gave way in bourgeois thought to a more symbolic system of representation based on speech, writing, and the law. Landes traces this change through the art and writing of the period. Using the works of Rousseau and Montesquieu as examples of the passage to the bourgeois theory of the public sphere, she shows how such concepts as universal reason, law, and nature were rooted in an ideologically sanctioned order of gender difference and separate public and private spheres. In the second part of the book, Landes discusses the discourses on women's rights and on women in society authored by Condorcet, Wollstonecraft, Gouges, Tristan, and Comte within the context of these new definitions of the public sphere. Focusing on the period after the execution of the king, she asks who got to be included as the People when men and women demanded that liberal and republican principles be carried to their logical conclusion. She examines women's roles in the revolutionary process and relates the birth of modern feminism to the silencing of the politically influential women of the Old Regime court and salon and to women's expulsion from public participation during and after the Revolution. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume II Alexis de Tocqueville, 2001-09-01 With his monumental work The Old Regime and the Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)-best known for his classic Democracy in America— envisioned a multivolume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that would examine the implications of French history on the nature and development of democratic society. Volume 1, which covered the eighteenth-century background to the Revolution, was published to great acclaim in 1856. On the continuation of this project, he wrote: When this Revolution has finished its work, [this volume] will show what that work really was, and what the new society which has come from that violent labor is, what the Revolution has taken away and what it has preserved from that old regime against which it was directed. Tocqueville died in the midst of this work. Here in volume 2—in clear, up-to-date English—is all that he had completed, including the chapters he started for a work on Napoleon, notes and analyses he made in the course of researching and writing the first volume, and his notes on his preparation for his continuation. Based on the new French edition of The Old Regime, most of the translated texts have never before appeared in English, and many of those that have appeared have been considerable altered. More than ever before, readers will be able to see how Tocqueville's account of the Revolution would have come out, had he lived to finish it. This handsomely produced volume completes the set and is essential reading for anyone interested in the French Revolution or in Tocqueville's thought. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: France Before 1789 Jon Elster, 2022-12-13 France before 1789 presents the main features of the prodigiously complex social system of the ancien regime which proceeded the French Revolution. In doing so Jon Elster goes beyond formal institutions to show how they worked in practice. He draws on a host of examples and contemporary texts to illuminate the perverse and sometimes pathological effects of this system and seeks to provide a detailed analysis of the political institutions that undergirded it. Whereas Tocqueville, in his famous analysis of the ancient regime, wanted to understand the old regime as a prelude to revolution, Elster views it as a prelude to constitution-making prompted by and intended to resolve these perversities. He views these as overlapping, yet important enough to render distinct. In addition to defending a particular set of substantive propositions about the conditions which led to the Constituent Assembly, Elster argues for a specific methodological approach to history, which emphasizes supplementing the historian's craft with approaches from the social sciences. Ultimately, he does not claim to answer the historians' questions better than they do. But he does aspire to ask and sometimes answer questions that historians have not formulated in order to better understand one of the most significant examples of collective decision-making history offers us-- |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Old Regime France, 1648-1788 William Doyle, 2001 The kingdom of France, a byword for upheaval and instability for a century before 1660, was transformed over the subsequent generation into the greatest power in Europe and an institutional model admired and imitated almost everywhere. A further century elapsed befoer this hegemony was challenged, and even then the collapse of monarchy in 1788 took most people by surprise. This book, bringing together an authoritative international panel of historians, portrays and analyses the life of France between two revolutions, a time later known as the old regime. All aspects of French life are covered: the economy, social development, religion and culture, French activity overseas, and not least politics and public life, where our understanding has been completely renewed over recent years. A detailed chronology and full bibliography complete this compelling analysis of an age behind whose calm and assured facade forces were developing which were to shape a very different country and continent. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Priests of the French Revolution Joseph F. Byrnes, 2015-02-05 The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to the new government—and thereby accept the religious reforms promoted in a new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. More than half did so at the beginning, and those who were subsequently consecrated bishops became the new official hierarchy of France. In Priests of the French Revolution, Joseph Byrnes shows how these priests and bishops who embraced the Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry. Their writings, public testimony, and recorded private confidences furnish the story of a national Catholic church. This is a history of the religious attitudes and psychological experiences underpinning the behavior of representative bishops and priests. Byrnes plays individual ideologies against group action, and religious teachings against political action, to produce a balanced story of saints and renegades within a Catholic tradition. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The New Regime Isser Woloch, 1995 Confident that they had broken with a discredited past, French revolutionaries after 1789 referred to pre-revolutionary times as the ancien regime (old regime). The National Assembly proclaimed the sovereignty of the people, grasping the reins of power and asserting the supremacy of law over all other interests. Even as the liberalism of 1789 collapsed into the Terror and then into the Napoleonic dictatorship, a new regime emerged at the juncture of state and civil society. The cycles of recrimination, hatred, and endemic local conflict unleashed by the Terror did not obliterate this new civic order. In this fascinating and wide-ranging study of three turbulent decades in French history, the eminent historian Isser Woloch examines some large questions: How did the French civic order change after 1789? What civic values animated the new regime; what policies did it adopt? What institutions did it establish, and how did they fare when carried into practice? Drawing on a variety of archival sources, Professor Woloch explains shifts in lawmaking and local authority, state intervention in village life, the creation of public primary schools, experiments in public assistance, a cycle of changes in the mechanisms of civil justice, the introduction of felony trials, and above all the imposition of military conscription. Unlike most accounts of the period, The New Regime moves outside Paris in search of the new civic order. Professor Woloch writes: Imagine approaching a typical French town in 1798 or 1808 - the capital of one of the eighty-odd departments that the National Assembly created by redividing the nation's territory. The spires of a cathedral or the largest parish churches would stillcommand the horizon. But as one moved about the town, one could readily identify its civic institutions: the departmental administration (later the prefecture); the town hall or mairie; the local schools; several new courts or tribunals; the institutions of poor relief such as a |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Inventing the French Revolution ` Keith Michael Baker, 1990-01-26 A wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the question 'How did the French Revolution become thinkable?'. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Shadows of Revolution David Avrom Bell, 2016 One of the greatest historians of French history reflects on the ways that the French Revolution continues to resonate in France and throughout the world. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction William Doyle, 2001-08-23 Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution , 2003 [This book] gives readers [an] introduction to the French Revolution that is also grounded in the latest ... scholarship ... The book presents a succinct narrative of the Revolution.-Back cover. [In this book, the authors] follow a wide range of events, including the social and cultural events as well as the military and political ones. Women's history and gender relations ... have been integrated into the general story.-Pref. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: A Short History of the French Revolution (Subscription) Jeremy D. Popkin, 2016-07-01 This book attempts to introduce students to the major events that make up the story of the French Revolution and to the different ways in which historians have interpreted them. It covers the relationship between France and the United States. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization John W. Boyer, Arthur W. H. Adkins, Julius Kirshner, 1986 The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802 T. C. W. Blanning, 1996 The military and political progress of the [French] revolutionary armies is narrated and analysed in this ... study, with special attention paid to the legacy of the old regime, the remarkable resilience displayed by the old regime powers, the reasons for the revolutionaries' success on land -- and the reasons for their failure at sea. The revolutionary wars brought France hegemony in Europe but at a terrible cost. Inside the country, the war brought the end of pluralism, the destruction of the monarchy, civil war and the terror, paving the way for military dictatorship and burdening the country with an enduring legacy of political instability. This interaction between events at the front and at home is discussed in full. Special attention is also paid to the devastation inflicted by the revolutionary armies as they rampaged across the continent, together with the nationalist resistance movements they provoked--Page 4 of cover. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: A New World Begins Jeremy Popkin, 2019-12-10 From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and Black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror. Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins will stand as the definitive treatment of the French Revolution. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Utopia's Garden E. C. Spary, 2010-12-15 The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Old Régime and the French Revolution Charles Alexis Henri Clérel de Tocqueville, 1955 |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Singing the French Revolution Laura Mason, 2018-09-05 Laura Mason examines the shifting fortunes of singing as a political gesture to highlight the importance of popular culture to revolutionary politics. Arguing that scholars have overstated the uniformity of revolutionary political culture, Mason uses songwriting and singing practices to reveal its diverse nature. Song performances in the streets, theaters, and clubs of Paris showed how popular culture was invested with new political meaning after 1789, becoming one of the most important means for engaging in revolutionary debate.Throughout the 1790s, French citizens came to recognize the importance of anthems for promoting their interpretations of revolutionary events, and for championing their aspirations for the Revolution. By opening new arenas of cultural activity and demolishing Old Regime aesthetic hierarchies, revolutionaries permitted a larger and infinitely more diverse population to participate in cultural production and exchange, Mason contends. The resulting activism helps explain the urgency with which successive governments sought to impose an official political culture on a heterogeneous and mobilized population. After 1793, song culture was gradually depoliticized as popular classes retreated from public arenas, middle brow culture turned to the strictly entertaining, and official culture became increasingly rigid. At the same time, however, singing practices were invented which formed the foundation for new, activist singing practices in the next century. The legacy of the Revolution, according to Mason, was to bestow new respectability on popular singing, reshaping it from an essentially conservative means of complaint to an instrument of social and political resistance. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy Julian Swann, Joël Félix, 2013-03-28 This book brings together an international team of scholars from Britain, France and North America to examine the causes of the breakdown of the absolute monarchy in eighteenth-century France and offers a new interpretation of the origins of the Revolution of 1789. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The French Revolution Laura Mason, Tracey Rizzo, 1999 presented alongside those of sans-culottes; the histories of women, peasants, and the free blacks and slaves of Saint Domingue are represented, as are the testimonies of revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike. Documents range from political pamphlets, decrees by legislative bodies, and police reports to popular petitions from the countryside and popular literature from the period. Short narrative histories ... provid[e] students with a context in which to evaluate the documents. [This book is |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution Malick W. Ghachem, 2012-03-05 A provocative history of Haiti up to 1804, when Haitians became the first formerly enslaved people to overthrow a colonial slaveholding power. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789, Part I Franco Venturi, 2014-07-14 Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multivolume work Settecento Riformatore, a grand synthesis of Western history before the French Revolution as seen through the perceptive eyes of Italian observers. Princeton University Press has already published R. Burr Litchfield's English translation of the third volume of Settecento Riformatore, The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1768-1776: The First Crisis. Now the story continues with The End of the Old Regime in Europe, 1776-1789, translated from Volume IV of Venturi's work. The earlier volume dealt with European and Italian public opinion through the important decade that ended with the American Declaration of Independence. Part I of this new double volume traces the development of politics and opinion in the final crisis of the Old Regime in the great states of Western Europe--Great Britain, Spain, France, and Portugal. The second part extends the narrative to Eastern Europe. It discusses the growing movement of republican patriotism and the attempt to reform the Hapsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Empires. As previously, this historical drama is viewed through Italian publishing and journalism that observed a cosmopolitan world from Turin, Venice, Milan, Florence, Rome, and Naples and that intelligently interpreted it. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| the old regime and the french revolution: Modern France Vanessa R. Schwartz, 2011-10-10 The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future. |
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This seminar will examine the history and the historiography of the French Revolution with a retrospective look at the Old Regime as it influenced the outbreak of revolution and a brief look …
The Old Regime and the French Revolution - h-france.net
This course will cover the political, socioeconomic, and cultural history of France from about 1700 to 1815, with special emphasis on the causes and consequences of the French Revolution, one …
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON THE OLD REGIME …
from the absolutist monarchy of Louis XIV through the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era. After examining the structure of Old Regime society and government, we will explore the …
The Parlements of France and the Breakdown of the Old …
Historians have shown a remarkable degree of unanimity on this question. French historians of the old regime and the Revolution, who usually interpret the centuries preceding the Revolution …
Rights and Citizens in the Old Regime - JSTOR
Before the French Revolu- tion, citizenship in France was essentially legal membership in the state, which conferred only limited rights, notably the civil right to bequeath and inherit …
History 707: THE OLD REGIME AND THE FRENCH …
History 707: THE OLD REGIME AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Suzanne Desan smdesan@wisc.edu Office Hours: Tues. 11-12 a.m.; Thurs. 1-2 pm 5120 Humanities (262 …
Enlightenment and Revolution in France: Old Problems,
Old Regime and the Revolution that brought the new class to power: "it furnished the bourgeoisie, and more generally the entire French nation, with efficacious weapons in the revolutionary …
History 707: THE OLD REGIME AND THE FRENCH …
This course will focus on the social, cultural, and political history of France from the late seventeenth century through the French Revolution. We will pay particular attention to recent …
TOCQUEVILLE'S THE OLD REGIME - JSTOR
The thesis of The Old Regime represents an attempt to assess the historical significance of the French Revolution and to explain its causes. Before launching into either of these endeavors, it …
History 707: THE OLD REGIME AND THE FRENCH …
History 707: THE OLD REGIME AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Suzanne Desan smdesan@wisc.edu Office Hrs: Mon. 4-5; Wed. 11-12 5124 Humanities (262-8694) This course …
Politics, Culture, and the Origins of the French Revolution
history of the Old Regime, and especially in that of its final decades. In 1980, the first results of this historiographical revolution were given elegant synthetic expression in William Doyle's …
The French Revolution and the Politics of Government …
Whereas Sargent, Velde, and Crouzet have taken important steps, laying out theoretical considerations and the available evidence, this article draws on new archival data to interpret …
The French Revolution, Peasants, and Capitalism - JSTOR
The French Revolution, Peasants, and Capitalism ... the ancien regime and revolution, but they have yet to be incorporated into overall syntheses of the revolution. Among such studies in English are Jonathan Dewald, Pont-St.-Pierre, 1398-1789: ... Society and Culture since the Old Regime, Evelyn M. Acomb and Marvin L. Brown, Jr., eds. (New York ...
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - The Charnel-House
The French Revolution is a collection of key texts at the forefront of current research and interpretation, challenging orthodox ... Chapter 4 Reprinted from The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789, ed. …
'This Dangerous Ascendancy': Women's Political Participation in the …
French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History, ed. and trans. by Lynn Hunt (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1996), 133–134. 7. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, “Robespierre, Old Regime Feminist? Gender, the Late Eighteenth Century, and the French Revolution Revisited,” Journal of Modern History. 82, no.
Recent Work on the Origins of the French Revolution - JSTOR
French Revolution Documents I (Oxford, 1966) uses the original French, but English is used by J. Hardman, The French Revolution (London, 1981), K. Baker, The Old Regime and the French Revolution (Chicago, 1987) and L. Cowie, The French Revolution (Macmillan, 1987). The extent to which problems and tension were increasing during the
and Revolutionaries (1995). More recent books include and its …
William Doyle is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Bristol, and Fellow of the British Academy. Among his many publications are Th e Oxford History of the French Revolution (2nd edn., 2002) and an earlier volume of essays, Offi cers, Nobles, and Revolutionaries (1995). More recent books include Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution (2009) and the edited
A reading of the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville: …
a continuity between the Old Regime and the Revolution. The new regime has recovered the centralization of power and administration that the old regime had begun. In a way, the Revolution completes the march of the Old Regime. Many reforms that were not achieved under Louis XVI were completed during the Revolution: the abolition of tax ...
The old r´egime and the French Revolution - Chalmers
The old r´egime and the French Revolution A. de Tocqueville July 10-14, 2010 Alexis de Tocqueville, known and still frequently quoted for his book on democracy in ... account of the old regime, looking at it with fresh eyes, so to speak, after it having been so thoroughly discredited by the Revolution. Also, as noted, he spends a lot of time
French Revolution in World-Historical Perspective* / SKOCPOL
rhetoric of the French Revolution in 1787-89, to its radical crescendo in the Year II (1793-94), and to its culmination in the peculiar Napoleonic dictatorship that emerged after 1799. Geopolitical Decline and the Outbreak of the Revolution As is well known, the Old Regime's descent into the maelstrom started when the monarchy exhausted its ...
The Successes & Limitations of the French Revolution in the …
history from the French Revolution to the present day, (Buckingham, Open University, 2002), pp.16- ... had ever been in practice under the old regime. On paper, then, the French revolution
The Haitian Revolution - Saylor Academy
The French Revolution was another important factor that shaped the Haitian Revolution. The French Revolution, along with the American Revolution, set precedents for overthrowing an old regime. In fact, the French Revolution had a deep effect on the philosophical underpinnings of Haitian society. One aspect that was drastically changed
Emigration during the French Revolution: Consequences in the …
quences of the French Revolution across dØpartements (the administrative divisions of the French territory). Speci–cally, we exploit local variation in the weakening of the Old Regime, re⁄ected in the di⁄erent emigration rates across dØpartements. During the Revolution, more than 100;000 in-
9 His. 102. French Revolution - San José State University
French Revolution Instructor: Michael D. Berdine, Ph.D. Pima Community College – West Campus ... – The opposition of these elites to the old order led them ultimately to drastic action against the monarchical regime. – In a real sense, the Revolution had …
Kale, Steven D. French Salons: High Society and Political …
Kale, Steven D. French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability From the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. E-book, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press ...
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Chapter 2:The Old Regime, characterized by inequality and a rigid social hierarchy, laid the foundations for the French Revolution. Check more about The Old Regime and the French Revolution Summary Tocqueville provides a compelling example to illustrate this point. He introduces the story of Jacques Necker, a commoner who rose to become
Reflections on Burke's 'Reflections on the French Revolution'
revolution is less likely to result from a conspiracy than from the collapse of an old regime; (2) that the American Revolution was a source and an early phase of a revolutionary epidemic that spread to France and then over the world in the century that followed; and (3) that subsequent events may at times shed as much light upon the past as the
History 707: THE OLD REGIME AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION …
The French Revolution in Social and Political Perspective (London, 1996), 166-88 WEEK 8 (MAR. 13): THE ORIGINS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUT ION ... Old Regime Discourses, and Revolutionary Improvisation,” in From Deficit to Deluge: The Origins of the French Revolution, ed. Thomas E. Kaiser and Dale Van ...
The 'Marxist Interpretation' of the French Revolution - JSTOR
Old Regime and the Revolution,' we were told.2 In retrospect, this seems too melodramatic. If there has been a 'crisis' among French Marxist historians of the Revolution, which is possible, it is not mainly on account of chill winds blowing in from the Channel or (for that matter) from the Atlantic. There is some evidence of
The Old Regime and the French Revolution - h-net.org
The Old Regime and the French Revolution, "the campaign against all forms of religion was merely incidental to the French Revolution, a spectacular but transient phenomenon, a brief reaction to the ideologies, emotions, and events which led up to it--but in no sense basic to its program." This nos‐ trum that the revolution had no ...
I Origins: the Old Regime - Springer
Saxony), the protectionist policies adopted by old customers such as Spain and the domestic recession beginning in the 1770s all conspired to send the French textile industry into the Revolution in a debilitated state [35]. Given that some 85 per cent ofthe French population lived in the countryside, more important was the backward state of ...
The Ancien Régime - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
The Old Regime and the French Revolution, the orthodox version of the natural frontiers thesis has been claimed to reveal an underlying continuity between the foreign policy of the ancien régime and the Revolution. 9 Although shaped by contemporary political concerns relating to the
The French Revolution Begins
the French Revolution. TAKING NOTES Causes of Revolution The French Revolution and Napoleon217 MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES ECONOMICS Economic and social inequalities in the Old Regime helped cause the French Revolution. Throughout history, economic and social inequalities have at times led peoples to revolt against their governments.
In the Beginning Was the Word: The French Revolution - JSTOR
3 Camille Ernest Labrousse, La Crise de lnconomie franfaise d la fin de l'ancien regime et au debut de la revolution (Paris, 1944); Marcel Reinhard (trans. Frances S. Childs), "Demog-raphy, the Economy, and the French Revolution," in Evelyn M. Acomb and Marvin L. Brown (eds.), French Society and Culture Since the Old Regime (New York, i966), 19-42.
Feudalism and the French Revolution - JSTOR
the conception of the French Revolution as essentially a bourgeois revolt against feudalism has become enshrined, some might say em-balmed in the lectures we heard as students and in those we still give as professors. Each semester an enlightened bourgeoisie, chafing un-der the constraints of the old feudal regime, rises in one movement to
Privilege and the Polity in France, 1786-1791 - JSTOR
FOR MORE THAN A GENERATION, SCHOLARS HAVE ANALYZED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION primarily as the product of social and economic conflict between a rising capitalist ... the Social Vocabulary of the French Old Regime," in Hans Ulrich Wehler, ed., Sozialgeschichte Heute: Festschriftffir Hans Rosenberg zum 70. Gebutrtstag (G6ttingen, 1974), 48-68; and ...
Interpreting the French revolution - Historical Association
French Revolution dominated by a dysfunctional ‘political culture, in w’ hich rhetorical abstractions replaced calculation of interests, and devotion to the purity of the revolutionary ... explicitly and implicitly, from the Old Regime into the New. They combined, …
Nationalism in the French Revolution of 1789 - University of Maine
Revolution that transformed them into a powerful, popular force which cut itself loose from the tenets of the Old Regime and based itself upon a new set of principles.” 7. Before the Revolution, much of the national sentiment revolved around a particular social …
Internationalizing the French Revolution - JSTOR
the potential for rethinking the causes of the French Revolution. Paul Cheney takes a step in this direction with Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy . This book focuses primarily on the emergence of political economy in the Old Regime: the author demonstrates that the crafters of the
The French Revolution - Archive.org
The French Revolution is the most important event in the life of modern Europe. Herder com- pared it to the Reformation and the rise of Chris- tianity; and it deserves to be ranked with those two ... of the old regime outweighed all other hates, and that during the perilous vicissitudes of the last sixty years the fear of its return has ...
The French Revolution - Norwell High School
The French Revolution Overview: The French Revolution became the most momentous upheaval of the revolutionary age. It replaced the ―Old Regime‖ with a ―modern society‖ It profoundly influenced future revolutions. Chronology and periodization are …
The Three Estates Information sheet - UCL
Before the revolution in France, a time known as the Ancien Regime, society was divided into three distinct classes, known as the Three Estates. The First Estate was the clergy, who were people, including priests, who ran both the Catholic church and some aspects of the country. In addition to keeping registers of births, deaths and marriages, the
Noncapitalist Wealth and the Origins of the French Revolution
French Revolution GEORGE V. TAYLOR* TO call the French Revolution of I789 a "bourgeois revolution" invokes ideas which, by common consent, are inseparable from that phrase. It im- ... the old regime, gentility required a stable fortune that left one free to live with ease and dignity on his revenues. In the fortunes of the Toulouse nobles
High School
The French Revolution and Napoleon Lesson 1 The French Revolution Begins Key Terms and People Old Regime system of feudalism estate social class of people Louis XVI weak king who came to French throne in 1774 Marie Antoinette unpopular queen; wife of Louis XVI Estates-General assembly of representatives from all three estates
The French Revolution Begins - Central Bucks School District
the French Revolution. TAKING NOTES Causes of Revolution The French Revolution and Napoleon217 MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES ECONOMICS Economic and social inequalities in the Old Regime helped cause the French Revolution. Throughout history, economic and social inequalities have at times led peoples to revolt against their governments.
TOCQUEVILLE: THE ANCIEN RÉGIME AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
978-0-521-88980-3 - Tocqueville: The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution Edited by Jon Elster Frontmatter More information. CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT Series Editors RAYMOND GEUSS ... Era of the Old Monarchy, and How That Very Prosperity Hastened the Revolution III. How Attempts to Relieve the People Stirred Them to ...
The altered state and the state of nature— the French Revolution …
make of it’, though in the case of the French Revolution a change in actor identity made anarchy more violent rather than more benign.2 The European old regime rested on the foundation of dynastic legitimacy; the French Revolution, with its alternative legitimating principle of popular sovereignty, undermined this found-
Alexis De Tocqueville The Old Regime And The Revolution Copy
His magnum opus, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, published posthumously in. 1856, transcends its historical context to offer profound insights into the nature of social and political change. Unlike many historical accounts focusing solely on the events of 1789, Tocqueville delves deep into the underlying causes, exploring the
Public Opinion and Political Culture in France during the …
2. Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution, trans. Stuart Gilbert (New York, I955), pp. I74-5. 3. In the context of the French Revolution historians such as Alfred Cobban and George Taylor, who questioned the main categories and …
French Historical Studies Style Guide - Duke University Press
French Revolution; the Revolution; revolutionary France Hexagon (capped in reference to metropolitan France) the Liberation (after World War II) Lyon M., Mlle., Mme. (i.e., with periods) Marseille Napoleon, Napoleonic New World the Occupation (World War II) Old Regime Old World Orientalism, -ist pace (“in spite of”)
Marxist Historians and the Question of Class in the French Revolution
Furet's by now famous adage that the "French Revolution is over" was repeated on page 1 of the New York Times, serving to underscore the parting of the ways between the social ... cate the administration of the Old Regime, to the advantage of the bourgeoisie" (in the case of the urban popular movements), or, perhaps more directly, to de-
Jean-Léon Gérome The French Revolution Begins
the French Revolution. TAKING NOTES Causes of Revolution The French Revolution and Napoleon651 MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES ECONOMICS Economic and social inequalities in the Old Regime helped cause the French Revolution. Throughout history, economic and social inequalities have at times led peoples to revolt against their governments.
GENERAL EDITORS: THE FRENCH 2ND EDITION - The Charnel …
The French Revolution can be seen as an enormous explosion of ... Managing the new regime 50 A01_JONE4382_02_SE_FM.qxd 4/13/10 10:58 AM Page vii. The fall of the monarchy 55 Citizenship in the colonies 59 ... Culture of the Old Regime(Pergamon Press, 1987); John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Keith Michael Baker, ed., The French Revolution and the Creation …
that gave explosive meaning to the events that destroyed the Old Regime--and came to constitute the grounding for the new-cannot be derived in a unilinear way from any preceding movement . . . .The French Revolution. . . was a radical political invention, …
Speaking out from the Home: Women and Political Engagement in …
conferences. In French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848, historian Steven D. Kale notes that during the Revolution, “‘[c]lub-based parties,’ associations linked to politicians, and a ‘politically oriented press’ [were] the instruments of the new public sphere.
The French Revolution NCERT 9th Cheat Sheet by …
Old Regime. (Wikipedia Page For More Inform ation) A shorter column, but an important topic. (Taken from pg. no. 5 from India and the Contem porary World - Part I of NCERT 9th grade) Increase In Taxes Royal Family In 1774, Louis XVI of the Bourbon royal family of France ascended to the throne. He was 20 years old and married to the Austrian
Scientific and Technological Revolutions and National ... - PSL
and cultural orders at the end of the Old Regime. How were science, technology, education and national interests formed into a new system during the French Revolution? Based on the modernizing reforms of the Old Regime, the establishment of the new regime promoted the process of political modernization.
The French Revolution Begins - Shamrock Book
French Regime caused the French Revolution. ... Under The Old Regime French society divided into 3 classes, called ESTATES. 1st Estate Clergy = 1% of population 2nd Estate The Nobility of France 2% of population 3rd Estate Everyone Else 97% of population .
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Legacy of the French Revolution
page numbers in the The Old Regime and the French Revolution, tr. Stuart Gilbert (New York, 1955), will appear following the slash in the parentheses. I have again altered the translations where I saw fit. Translations from the second volume are my own. SOCIAL RESEARCH, Vol. …
EVENTS AND PROCESSES - NCERT
In Section I, you will read about the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the rise of Nazism. In different ways all these events were important in the ... in France during the Old Regime. New words Subsistence crisis Œ An extreme situation where …
Class 9 Social Studies Hist. Ch 1: French Revolution Worksheet
Hist. Ch 1: French Revolution Question 1. In 1774, Louis XVI of the Bourbon family of Kings ascended the throne of _____ . ... The burden of financial activities of state during the Old Regime was borne by the _____ . Question 4. In France, the eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of a social group, termed as the _____ .
The French Revolution - Denton ISD
The Old Order The French Revolution Begins Section-1 The Old Regime • Old Regime—social and political system in France during the 1770s • Estates—three social classes of France’s Old Regime Continued…
