The French Revolution
Philip Dawson (Editor)
The drama of ideas shared a turbulent stage with the drama of human events during the era documented by Philip Dawson in The French Revolution. Through a brilliant selection of confidential letters, police reports, political broadsides, grievance lists, public speeches, and legislative proceedings, Dawson vividly evokes an atmosphere in which the word "revolution" came to connote a way of life. These writings, most of them newly translated for this volume, show how inflammatory issues of public policy took on a tangible and compelling aspect in the long march by hundreds of women from Paris to Versailles; in the tumult of an amateur army besieging the king of Tuileries palace; in the invasion of the National Convention by a crowd bearing the head of a representative impaled on a pike. They present powerful evidence of the shortness in political distance between the Revolution of 1789 and the revolution of our own day
History
viii, 181 pages ; 21 cm.
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France on the eve of revolution
The fall of the Bastille and the women's march to Versailles, 1789
Church and state
The capture of the Tuileries Palace, 1792
Democratic government and revolutionary war
The insurrection against the Convention, 1795