Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution
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Appellate court
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Auvergne
Bailiwick
Barrister
Bourgeoisie
Calculation
Capital city
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Central government
Chef-lieu
Clermont-Ferrand
Commissioner
Committee of Public Safety
Counter-revolutionary
Decree
Deliberation
Diocese
Direct tax
Dombes
Edict
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Estates of the realm
Grenoble
Ideology
Institution
Intendant
Jacobin
Jurisdiction
Langres
Languedoc
Lawyer
Legislation
Legislature
Limoges
Lobbying
Lynn Hunt
Magistrate
Market town
Militant (Trotskyist group)
Montpellier
Nantes
Niort
Nobility
Parlement
Parochialism
Patriotism
Petitioner
Poitiers
Politics
Precedent
Rapprochement
Reims
Rhetoric
Salary
Seigneur
Seminar
Soissons
Solicitor
Sovereign court
Subprefecture
Tax
Thermidorians
Toulouse
Town meeting
Unemployment
Voting
Wealth
Product details
- ISBN 9780691008912
- Weight: 765g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 1992
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The reordering of France into a new hierarchy of administrative and judicial regions in 1791 unleashed an intense rivalry among small towns for seats of authority, while raising vital issues for the vast majority of the French population. Here Ted Margadant tells a lively story of the process of politicization: magistrates, lawyers, merchants, and other townspeople who petitioned the National Assembly not only boasted of their own communities and denigrated rival towns, but also adopted revolutionary slogans and disseminated new political ideas and practices throughout the countryside. The history of this movement offers a unique vantage point for analyzing the regional context of town life and the political dynamics of bourgeois leadership during the French Revolution. Margadant explores the institutional crisis of the old regime that brought about the reordering, considers the rhetoric and politics of space in the first year of the Revolution, and examines the fate of small towns whose districts and law courts were suppressed.
Combining descriptive narrative with statistical analysis and computer mapping, he reveals the important consequences of the new hierarchy for the urban development of France in the post-Revolutionary era.
