The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 Darnton Robert
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 Darnton Robert When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the…
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 Darnton Robert
When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. But what did Parisians themselves think they were doing--how did they understand their world? Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought.
In this dazzling history, Robert Darnton addresses these questions by drawing on decades of close study to conjure a past as vivid as today's news. What were the motivations and aspirations that guided their actions? He explores eighteenth-century Paris as an information society much like our own, its news circuits centered in cafs, on park benches, and under the Palais-Royal's Tree of Cracow.
Through pamphlets, gossip,
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