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This major work, graphically describes the panic, paranoia, and social chaos that sparked the Revolution. One of France's great historians analyzes the causes of the mass hysteria that overcame rural France during the summer of 1789, as hungry villagers flocked into towns to look for work or to beg for charity, and as vagrants and beggars choked the rural roads, threatening reprisals against householders who refused to give them shelter or a crust of bread. Originally published in 1983. 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.… (plus d'informations)
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This book describes what happened over the course of May, June, and into late July of 1789 in the French countryside. Fear spread across the country: fear of starvation, fear of thieves and riotous strangers, fear of an aristocratic conspiracy to reverse the gains of the Third Estate, and fear of an impending army of brigands who had just pillaged, burned, and destroyed your neighbour's village and were tonight on their way to do the same to yours.
Almost none of it was true, and almost none of the fears were realised.
The book starts out by painting a fascinating and detailed picture of how villagers and peasants lived in the countryside in 1789. Then it moves into an interesting but slightly confusing tale of how the countryside reacted to the Estates General. The final part, about how the final climatic panic about what was happening just over the horizon spread its tentacles over much of France, is almost indecipherably confusing and vague: countless pages list countless French villages and towns in rapid succession. For anyone who doesn't have an encyclopedic knowledge of French geography the effect is deadening, soporific, and infuriating.
But don't let that stop you, for there are so many fascinating details and stories tucked in there: the page describing the mechanics of how news spread from Paris to other parts of France, going into the details of who exactly was writing letters to who, and how long they took to get from here to there; the countless hilarious stories of how panicked peasants and townsfolk mistook noisy cows or arguments in the fields for rampaging brigands; the frightened nobility dodging this way and that to try and avoid consequences; the sometimes sensible and sometimes panicked government officials trying to make sense out of chaos. Worthwhile reading for the details.
La grande peur de 1789 est un événement étonnant, dont l’aspect extérieur a été souvent décrit, mais dont les causes n’ont jamais été l’objet d’une enquête approfondie. [...]
Première partie Les Campagnes en 1789
Chapitre 1 La faim
« Le peuple », écrit Taine, dans L’Ancien Régime, « ressemble à un homme qui marcherait dans un étang, ayant de l’eau jusqu’à la bouche ; à la moindre dépression du sol, au moindre flot, il perd pied, enfonce et suffoque. » [...]
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It is not only the strange and picturesque nature of the Great Fear which should hold our attention: it played its part in the preparations for the night of 4 August and on these grounds alone must count as one of the most important episodes in the history of the French nation.
Ne pas combiner le titre : 'La grande peur de 1789' paru en 1932 avec le titre 'La grande peur de 1789 !. Suivi de Les Foules révolutionnaires' paru en 1988
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This major work, graphically describes the panic, paranoia, and social chaos that sparked the Revolution. One of France's great historians analyzes the causes of the mass hysteria that overcame rural France during the summer of 1789, as hungry villagers flocked into towns to look for work or to beg for charity, and as vagrants and beggars choked the rural roads, threatening reprisals against householders who refused to give them shelter or a crust of bread. Originally published in 1983. 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.
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Almost none of it was true, and almost none of the fears were realised.
The book starts out by painting a fascinating and detailed picture of how villagers and peasants lived in the countryside in 1789. Then it moves into an interesting but slightly confusing tale of how the countryside reacted to the Estates General. The final part, about how the final climatic panic about what was happening just over the horizon spread its tentacles over much of France, is almost indecipherably confusing and vague: countless pages list countless French villages and towns in rapid succession. For anyone who doesn't have an encyclopedic knowledge of French geography the effect is deadening, soporific, and infuriating.
But don't let that stop you, for there are so many fascinating details and stories tucked in there: the page describing the mechanics of how news spread from Paris to other parts of France, going into the details of who exactly was writing letters to who, and how long they took to get from here to there; the countless hilarious stories of how panicked peasants and townsfolk mistook noisy cows or arguments in the fields for rampaging brigands; the frightened nobility dodging this way and that to try and avoid consequences; the sometimes sensible and sometimes panicked government officials trying to make sense out of chaos. Worthwhile reading for the details.