The Notables and the Nation : : The Political Schooling of the French, 1787–1788 /

The Notables and the Nation : : The Political Schooling of the French, 1787–1788 / / Vivian R. Gruder.

The ending of absolute, centralized monarchy and the beginning of political combat between nobles and commoners make the years 1787 to 1788 the first stage of the French Revolution. In a detailed examination of this critical transition, Vivian Gruder examines how the French people became engaged in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Gruder, Vivian R.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Harvard Historical Studies ; 157
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Physical Description:1 online resource (518 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Map of France, 1786
  • Introduction
  • I. The Assembly of Notables: February–May 1787, November–December 1788
  • 1. Paths to Political Consciousness: The Notables in the First Assembly, February–May 1787
  • 2. Privilege, Property, and Participation: A Mutation in Elite Political Culture
  • 3. The Society of Orders at Its Demise: The Vision of the Elite at the End of the Ancien Régime
  • II. The Media and the Public: Networks of Information, Opinion, Instruction
  • 4. Political News as Coded Messages: The Parisian and Provincial Press, 1787–1788
  • 5. The Foreign French-Language Press: Gazettes
  • 6. The Foreign French-Language Press: Journals of Opinion
  • 7. Manuscript Newsletters—Nouvelles à la Main
  • 8. Pamphlets and Other Writings: A Network of Political Education and Polemics
  • 9. Readers and Reading Sites: The Public and the Network of the Printed and Written Media
  • 10. The Verbal, the Visual, and the Festive
  • III. At the Grass Roots
  • 11. “Popular” Pamphlets: Political Messages to the Public
  • 12. Can We Hear the Voices of Peasants?
  • 13. The Grass Roots: Local Judges and Community Assemblies Speak Out
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Chronology
  • Appendix B. Contemporary Accounts of Fêtes, 1787–1788
  • Notes
  • Index

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