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Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution, This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By d, Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution has a rating of 4 stars
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Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution, This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By d, Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
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  • Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
  • Written by author Michael Sonenscher
  • Published by Princeton University Press, August 2008
  • This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By d
  • "With deftness, wit, and great erudition, Michael Sonenscher traces the complex and unexpected pre-Jacobin history of the phrase 'sans culottes' to its origins in the rivalries and concerns of the Parisian salons. This probing history brings to life the p
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1 Introduction: "One of the Most Interesting Pairs of Breeches Recorded in Modern History" 1

2 An Ingenious Emblem 57

New Year's Gifts and an Eighteenth-Century French Joke 57

Fashion's Empire: The Moral Foundations of Salon Society 77

A "Poor Devil": The Short, Unhappy Life of Nicolas-Joseph-Laurent Gilbert 101

Mercier and Rousseau: Vitalist and Contractual Conceptions of Political Society 110

3 Diogenes and Rousseau: Music, Morality, and Society 134

Diogenes and the Ambiguities of Cynic Philosophy 134

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Politics of Public Opinion 147

Rousseau and His Cynic Critics 164

John Brown and the Progress of Civilisation 178

"That Subtle Diogenes": Immanuel Kant and Rousseau's Dilemmas 195

4 Property, Equality, and the Passions in Eighteenth-Century French Thought 202

Reform, Revolution, and the Problem of State Power 202

Property and the Limits of State Power 221

Physiocracy, Reform, and the Fruits of the Tree of Life 248

John Law's Legacy and the Aftermath of Physiocracy 260

Dominique-Joseph Garat, the Modern Idea of Happiness, and the Dilemmas of Reform 273

5 The Entitlements of Merit 283

Visions of Patriotism 283

The Army and Its Problems in the Eighteenth Century 288

Constitutional Government, Taxation, and Equality 296

Political Liberty, Public Finance, and Public Worship 305

Etienne Claviere, Law's System, and French Liberty 315

Feuillants and Brissotins 324

Antoine-Joseph Gorsas and the Politics of Revolutionary Satire 338

6 Conclusion: Democracy and Terror 362

Politics and History in Jacobin Thought 362

Rousseauand Revolution 367

Mably, Rousseau, and Robespierre 372

Epilogue 407

Bibliography 425

Index 475


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