The making of revolutionary Paris
"The sights, sounds, and smells of life in eighteenth-century Paris are evoked in the pages of this comprehensive chronicles of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of sweeping social and cultural change. An excellent general history as well as an innovative synthesis of new research, The Making of Revolutionary Paris offers vivid portraits of individual lives, accounts of social trends, and analyses of significant events, exploring the evolution of Parisian society during the eighteenth century and revealing the city's pivotal role in shaping the French Revolution."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2002
History
xiv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780520232532, 0520232534
1055982437
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I THE SOCIAL ORDER OF CUSTOMARY PARIS 1. The Patterns of Urban Life 2. The Poor You Have with You Always 3. Not Servants but Workers 4. Each According to His Station PART II CITY GOVERNMENT AND POPULAR DISCONTENT 5. Bread, Police, and Protest 6. Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Religion and Politics PART III MAKING A NEW ROME 7. Affaires du Temps 8. Secularization 9. Urbanism or Despotism? 10. The Integration of the City 11. Plebeian Culture, Metropolitan Culture 12. The City and the Revolution Epilogue The New Paris Notes Selected Reading Index
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