The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France - Softcover

Lefebvre, Georges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691007934 ISBN 13: 9780691007939

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1983

Synopsis

This major work, graphically describes the panic, paranoia, and social chaos that sparked the Revolution. One of France's great historians analyzes the causes of the mass hysteria that overcame rural France during the summer of 1789, as hungry villagers flocked into towns to look for work or to beg for charity, and as vagrants and beggars choked the rural roads, threatening reprisals against householders who refused to give them shelter or a crust of bread.

Originally published in 1983.

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About this title

About the Author:

Ancien titulaire de la chaire d'histoire de la revolution francaise a la Sorbonne et directeur des Annales historiques de la revolution francaise (1874-1959)

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0691007934
• ISBN 13: 9780691007939
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234