Becoming a Revolutionary ：The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790) ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790)

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Tackett Timothy;;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400864317

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691043845

Subject： K5 European History

Keyword： 欧洲史

Language： ENG

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Here Timothy Tackett tests some of the diverse explanations of the origins of the French Revolution by examining the psychological itineraries of the individuals who launched it--the deputies of the Estates General and the National Assembly. Based on a wide variety of sources, notably the letters and diaries of over a hundred deputies, the book assesses their collective biographies and their cultural and political experience before and after 1789. In the face of the current "revisionist" orthodoxy, it argues that members of the Third Estate differed dramatically from the Nobility in wealth, status, and culture.

Virtually all deputies were familiar with some elements of the Enlightenment, yet little evidence can be found before the Revolution of a coherent oppositional "ideology" or "discourse." Far from the inexperienced ideologues depicted by the revisionists, the Third Estate deputies emerge as practical men, more attracted to law, history, and science than to abstract philosophy. Insofar as they received advance instruction in the possibility of extensive reform, it came less from reading books than from involvement in municipal and regional politics and from the actions and decrees of the monarchy itself. Before their arrival in Versailles, few deputies envisioned changes that could be construed as "Revolutionary." Such new ideas emerged primarily in the process of the Assembly itself and continued to develop, in many cases, throughout the first year of the Revo

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Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Translations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1: Deputy Backgrounds

Part 2: Origins of the Revolutionary Dynamic

Part 3: Politics and Revolution

Conclusion

Appendix I Marriage Dowries of Deputies in Livres

Appendix II Estimated Deputy Fortunes and Incomes in Livres at the End of the Old Regime

Appendix III Leading Deputy Speakers During the National Assembly

Sources

Index

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