Becoming a Revolutionary

The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789–1790)

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

AvTimothy Tackett,Timothy (University of California Irvine) Tackett

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Winner of the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association, 1998, for the best book in Early Modern European History.Timothy Tackett’s Becoming a Revolutionary revisits one of the most controversial moments in history: the beginning of the French Revolution. How did it arise? Why did French men and women become revolutionaries? To answer these questions, Tackett focuses on the experiences of the 1200 members of the first French National Assembly. Drawing upon on a wide range of sources, including contemporary letters and diaries, Tackett shows that the deputies were a group of practical men, whose ideas were governed more by concrete subjects than by abstract philosophy. Though it may seem surprising now, most of the deputies were actually in support of the king. Instead of being initiated as a result of a specific ideology founded on Enlightenment principles, the ideas that eventually led to the French Revolution were, instead, a direct result of the actual process of the Assembly. First published in 1996 and hailed as an “exemplary product of the historian’s craft,” Becoming a Revolutionary is now available in paperback for the first time.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-01-15
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor372
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271028880

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CONTENTSLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSACKNOWLEDGMENTSNOTE ON TRANSLATIONSABBREVIATIONSINTRODUCTIONThe Enigma of the RevolutionThe Witnesses and Their TestimonyProspectusPART I: DEPUTY BACKGROUNDS1. THE THREE ESTATES: A Collective BiographyNumbers and General ProfileThe ClergyThe NobilityThe Third Estate2. A Revolution of the Mind?The Deputies and the EnlightenmentDeputy Publications before the RevolutionThe Religious Culture of the DeputiesIdeology and Revolution3. The Political ApprenticeshipPolitical Mobilization after 1770The Municipal Mobilization of 1788-1789Birth of the Aristocratic PartyThe Electoral Assemblies of 1789Third Opinion on the Eve of the Estates GeneralNoble Opinion on the Eve of the Estates GeneralPART II: ORIGINS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY DYNAMIC4. The Creation of the National AssemblyFactional Formation in the Early Third EstateThe Clerical Estate and the Dominance of the EpiscopacyThe Noble Estate and the Culture of IntransigenceThe Breton Club and the Emergence of a Third ConsensusThe Revolutionary Moment5. The Experience of RevolutionThe Deputies and the KingThe Mid-July CrisisViolenceThe Night of August 46. Fractional Formation and the Revolutionary Dynamic:August to NovemberThe Conservative OffensiveThe September Debates and the Limited Victory of the RightThe October Days: Break and ContinuityThe Formation of the JacobinsPART III: POLITICS AND REVOLUTION7. The Deputies as LawgiversThe Struggle for Self-DefinitionOrganizing the AssemblyBureaus and CommitteesLeadership and OratoryConstituency Relations8. Jacobins and Capuchins: The Revolutionary Dynamic through April 1790The Deputy Outlook after OctoberPolitical Alignments at the Beginning of 1790The Advance of the Left through February 1790The Religious Question and the Abortive Resurgence of the Right9. To End a RevolutionThe King’s New DirectionDivision of the Left and the Triumph of ’89The Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Suppression of the NobilityCommemorating the Revolution: The Federation of 1790CONCLUSIONAPPENDIX IMarriage Dowries of Deputies in LivresAPPENDIX IIEstimated Deputy Fortunes and Incomes in Livres at the End of the Old RegimeAPPENDIX IIILeading Deputy Speakers during the National AssemblySOURCESINDEX

“Narratives abound of France’s first legislature, the Estates General of 1789, which became the Constituent Assembly of 1789–1791. None involve the detailed research that this coherent, collective biography of its total 1,315 deputies represents. Timothy Tackett has combed the public and private archives of France to find over 150 separate collections of deputies’ correspondence. . . . Tackett’s book is essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of that revolutionary France.”—Emmet Kennedy American Historical Review