The Crowd in the French Revolution of 1830
1964; Oxford University Press; Volume: 70; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1842095
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)European Political History Analysis
ResumoO N July 30, I830, the Parisian journal Le National declared, It is the people who have done everything . .. it is they who have conquered, and from that day to the present the key role of the Parisian crowd in the Revolution of i830 has been generally accepted. Yet for a century after the event historians of the Revolution paid little attention to the crowd. They looked at the Revolution from above-from the meetings of deputies and journalists, from Auguste Marmont's command post in the Tuileries, from the Hotel de Ville, from the palace at Saint-Cloud. They reported vividly the complexity of motives, fears, and interests of the men in these places, but they viewed the crowd as a unit, almost as an abstraction, with a single set of motives. At their most naive they saw its interests and aspirations simply
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