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Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850
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This book examines the impact of rumour during the French
Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the
experiences of those who lived through it. Focusing on Paris during
the most radical years of the Jacobin republic, it argues that
popular rumour helped to shape perceptions of the Revolution and
provided communities with a framework with which to interpret an
unstable world. Lindsay Porter explores the role of rumour as a
phenomenon in itself, investigating the way in which the informal
authority of the 'word on the street' was subject to a range of
historical and contemporary prejudices. Drawing its conclusions
from police reports and other archival sources, this study examines
the potential of rumour both to unite and to divide communities, as
rumour and hearsay began to play an important role in defining and
judging personal commitment to the Revolution and what it meant to
be a citizen.
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