The Crowd in the French Revolution

by George Rudé

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195003705
• ISBN13: 9780195003703
• Release Date: December 1967
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 6.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 7.9"