The Crowd in the French Revolution

By: George Rude

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Paperback | 31 December 1967

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What kinds of people were in the crowds that stormed the Bastille, marched to Versailles to bring the king and queen back to Paris, overthrew the monarchy in August 1792, or impassively witnessed the downfall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor? Who led these crowds or mobilized them to action? What did they hope to achieve, and how far were their aims realized? Earlier historians have tended to view the revolutionary crowd as an abstraction--"people" or "mob" according to the writer's prejudice--often even as the personification of good or evil. Professor Rude's book, published originally in 1959, makes a first attempt to bring objectively to life each of the important Parisian crowds between 1787 and 1795. Using police records and other contemporary research materials, the author identifies the social groups represented in them, contrasts the crowds with their political leaders, relates their activities to underlying economic and psychological tensions, and compares the Parisian
crowd "patterns" to those of other popular movements in France and Britain during the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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"Dr. Rude holds the reader's interest by a masterly handling of a mass of material, and by making the Parisian crowds live again."--Times Literary Supplement "An important contribution to the history of the Revolution."--E.J. Hobsbawm, New Statesman "We should be grateful for the book; there is nothing quite like it."--American Historical Review

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