Massacre at the Champ de Mars: Popular Dissent and Political Culture in the French Revolution

by David Andress

On 17 July 1791 the revolutionary National Guard of Paris opened fire on a crowd of protesters, citizens who saw themselves as patriots, trying to save France from a traitor king. To the National Guard and their political superiors, however, the protesters were the dregs of the people, brigands paid by counter-revolutionary aristocrats. Politicians and journalists rallied to an account of this event in which the National Guard were the patriots, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843838427
• ISBN13: 9781843838425
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"