The Abolition of Feudalism in France (August 4, 1789)
Author | : William Thorne Halstead |
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Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1929 |
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Author | : William Thorne Halstead |
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Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1929 |
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Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Feudalism |
ISBN | : 9780271052762 |
Author | : Michael P. Fitzsimmons |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271028996 |
If the Fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, marks the symbolic beginning of the French Revolution, then August 4 is the day the Old Regime ended, for it was on that day (or, more precisely, that night) that the National Assembly met and undertook sweeping reforms that ultimately led to a complete reconstruction of the French polity. What began as a prearranged meeting with limited objectives suddenly took on a frenzied atmosphere during which dozens of noble deputies renounced their traditional privileges and dues. By the end of the night, the Assembly had instituted more meaningful reform than had the monarchy in decades of futile efforts. In The Night the Old Regime Ended, Michael Fitzsimmons offers the first full-length study in English of the night of August 4 and its importance to the French Revolution. Fitzsimmons argues against François Furet and others who maintain that the Terror was implicit in the events of 1789. To the contrary, Fitzsimmons shows that the period from 1789 to 1791 was a genuine moderate phase of the Revolution. Unlike all of its successor bodies, the National Assembly passed no punitive legislation against recalcitrant clergy or émigrés, and it amnestied all those imprisoned for political offenses before it disbanded. In the final analysis, the remarkable degree of change accomplished peacefully is what distinguishes the early period of the Revolution and gives it world-historical importance.
Author | : John Markoff |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271044411 |
Author | : Evelyn Kayser |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1926 |
Genre | : France |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : 9780947608057 |
Author | : Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2011-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195389417 |
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Author | : David Eltis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 777 |
Release | : 2011-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521840686 |
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Author | : Hilaire Belloc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Robert H. Blackman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108492444 |
The first comprehensive study of the complex events and debates through which the 1789 French National Assembly became a sovereign body.