The Coming of the French RevolutionThe Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefebvre wrote history "from below"--a Marxist approach. Here, he places the peasantry at the center of his analysis, emphasizing the class struggles in France and the significant role they played in the coming of the revolution. Eloquently translated by the historian R. R. Palmer and featuring an introduction by Timothy Tackett that provides a concise intellectual biography of Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book, this Princeton Classics edition continues to offer fresh insights into democracy, dictatorship, and insurrection. |
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Inhalt
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The EstatesGeneral | 73 |
The Mobilization of the Masses | 93 |
The Paris Revolution of July 14 | 108 |
The Municipal Revolutions | 121 |
The Peasantry | 129 |
The Problem of the Privileges | 153 |
The Declaration of the Rights of | 167 |
The Revolutionary Solution | 183 |
The Popular Agitation | 190 |
Confirmation | 196 |
Conclusion | 207 |
Declaration of the Rights of | 219 |
Index | 225 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 180 - Law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have the right to take part personally or by their representatives in its formation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes.
Seite 181 - The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.
Seite 180 - Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits' except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law.
Seite 181 - Property being an inviolable and sacred right, no one may be deprived of it except for an obvious requirement of public necessity, certified by law, and then on condition of a just compensation in advance.
Seite iv - The role of the nobility had correspondingly declined; and the clergy, as the ideal which it proclaimed lost prestige, found its authority growing weaker. These groups preserved the highest rank in the legal structure of the country, but in reality economic power, personal abilities and confidence in the future had passed largely to the bourgeoisie. . . . The Revolution of 1789 restored the harmony between fact and law.
Seite 180 - The law is the expression of the general will; all citizens have the right to concur personally or through their representatives in its formation; it must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens being equal in its eyes are equally admissible to all honors, positions, and public employments, according to their capabilities and without other distinctions than those of their virtues and talents.
Seite 180 - Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good. Article 2 — The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are Liberty, Property, Safety and Resistance to Oppression.
Seite iii - THE ULTIMATE CAUSE of the French Revolution of 1789 goes deep into the history of France and of the western world.
Seite 180 - No one shall be accused, arrested or imprisoned, save in the cases determined by law, and according to the forms which it has prescribed.
Seite 180 - ... he renders himself culpable by resistance. 8. The law is to establish only penalties that are absolutely and obviously necessary; and no one may be punished except by virtue of a law established and promulgated prior to the offence and legally applied. 9.
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Coming of the French Revolution Band 72 von Princeton classic editions |
| Autor/in | Georges Lefebvre |
| Übersetzt von | R. R. Palmer |
| Mitwirkende Personen | R. R. Palmer |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage, überarbeitet |
| Verlag | Princeton University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0691121885, 9780691121888 |
| Länge | 235 Seiten |
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