Author: Georges Le Tellier (conseiller municipal de Rouen.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 34
Book Description
Ville de Rouen. Conseil municipal. Rapport de M. Le Tellier,... sur le budget de 1877
Author: Georges Le Tellier (conseiller municipal de Rouen.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 34
Book Description
Louis XIV and Absolution
Author: Ragnhild Marie HattonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349169811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution
Author: Charles WaltonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199710015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended into a period of political terror, as thousands were arrested, tried, and executed for crimes of expression and opinion. In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the origins of this reversal back to the Old Regime. He shows that while early advocates of press freedom sought to abolish pre-publication censorship, the majority still firmly believed injurious speech--or calumny--constituted a crime, even treason if it undermined the honor of sovereign authority or sacred collective values, such as religion and civic spirit. With the collapse of institutions responsible for regulating honor and morality in 1789, calumny proliferated, as did obsessions with it. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, from National Assembly debates to local police archives, Walton shows how struggles to set legal and moral limits on free speech led to the radicalization of politics, and eventually to the brutal liquidation of "calumniators" and fanatical efforts to rebuild society's moral foundation during the Terror of 1793-1794. With its emphasis on how revolutionaries drew upon cultural and political legacies of the Old Regime, this study sheds new light on the origins of the Terror and the French Revolution, as well as the history of free expression.
Feudalism, venality, and revolution
Author: Stephen MillerPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526148366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king’s government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.
France in the World
Author: Patrick BoucheronPublisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590519418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 993
Book Description
This dynamic collection presents a new way of writing national and global histories while developing our understanding of France in the world through short, provocative essays that range from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015. Bringing together an impressive group of established and up-and-coming historians, this bestselling history conceives of France not as a fixed, rooted entity, but instead as a place and an idea in flux, moving beyond all borders and frontiers, shaped by exchanges and mixtures. Presented in chronological order from 34,000 BC to 2015, each chapter covers a significant year from its own particular angle--the marriage of a Viking leader to a Carolingian princess proposed by Charles the Fat in 882, the Persian embassy's reception at the court of Louis XIV in 1715, the Chilean coup d'état against President Salvador Allende in 1973 that mobilized a generation of French left-wing activists. France in the World combines the intellectual rigor of an academic work with the liveliness and readability of popular history. With a brand-new preface aimed at an international audience, this English-language edition will be an essential resource for Francophiles and scholars alike.
Dictionnaire Napoleon
Author: Jean F. TulardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780828824910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Great Historical Geographical and Poetical Dictionary
Author: Louis MoreriPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415200462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Facts about sherry
Author: Henry VizetellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sherry
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Fresh from the Farm 6pk
Author: RigbyYvain
Author: Chretien de TroyesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300038380
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love