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Massacre at the Champ de Mars - Popular Dissent and Political Culture in the French Revolution (Paperback)
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Massacre at the Champ de Mars - Popular Dissent and Political Culture in the French Revolution (Paperback)
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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The massacre exposed the widely differing ways in which
post-Revolutionary Parisians construed the word "patriotism", and
why the great Revolutionary goal of political unanimity was so
elusive. On 17 July 1791 the revolutionary National Guard of Paris
opened fire on a crowd of protesters: citizens believing themselves
patriots trying to save France from the reinstatement of a traitor
king. To the National Guard and theirpolitical superiors the
protesters were the dregs of the people, brigands paid by
counter-revolutionary aristocrats. Politicians and journalists
declared the National Guard the patriots, and their action a heroic
defence of the fledgling Constitution. Under the Jacobin Republic
of 1793, however, this "massacre" was regarded as a high crime, a
moment of truth in which a corrupt elite exposed its treasonable
designs. This detailed study of the events of July 1791 and their
antecedents seeks to understand how Parisians of different classes
understood "patriotism", and how it was that their different
answers drove them to confront each other on the Champ de Mars.
David Andress is Professor of Modern History at the School of
Social, Historical and Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth.
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