"With deftness, wit, and great erudition, Michael Sonenscher traces
the complex and unexpected pre-Jacobin history of the phrase 'sans
culottes' to its origins in the rivalries and concerns of the
Parisian salons. This probing history brings to life the
patronesses, philosophers, wits, and hacks of the ancien regime and
illuminates the contending uses of ancient philosophy and visions
of society and personal virtue that circulated among them. The
analyses of competing Ciceronian and Cynical views of fashion, and
of the gulfs between Rousseau and his self-designated acolytes, are
particularly powerful. This book will be sure to transform
irrevocably our understanding of the notorious emblem of
Jacobinism."--Jennifer Pitts, author of "A Turn to Empire"
"With this book, Michael Sonenscher establishes himself as one
of the most significant authors in the world today writing on the
French Revolution. Focusing at the outset on the apparently
unpromising question of how the revolutionary sans-culottes got
their name, Sonenscher takes his readers on an extraordinary
journey of discovery to the heart of the French Enlightenment and
revolutionary politics. A brilliant tour de force, based on a
dazzling command of eighteenth-century political and economic
writing and razor-sharp analytical skills, this book will be
required reading for any scholar or student interested in the
origins and outcomes of the revolution."--Colin Jones, Queen Mary,
University of London
"A pathbreaking account of the emergence of the concept of
republican citizenship in the eighteenth century, Michael
Sonenscher's "Sans-Culottes" is also one of the most ambitious,
original, and satisfying accounts of theeighteenth-century
resonance of Rousseau's arguments regarding human nature, culture,
and politics that I have encountered."--E. J. Hundert, professor
emeritus of history, University of British Columbia
"Drawing on a dazzling array of texts--from the most well known
to the totally arcane--Michael Sonenscher reveals that the
sans-culottes of revolutionary France were the cultural offspring
of a deep and densely argued eighteenth-century philosophical
divide. The story is utterly fascinating and will come as a
surprise, especially to social historians. There are few scholars
working today who can rival the breadth or depth of Sonenscher's
command of eighteenth-century European intellectual
culture."--Carla Hesse, University of California, Berkeley
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