Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794

By:

Lindsay Porter

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Paperback / softback

Series:

War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850

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This book examines the impact of rumour during the French Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the experiences of those who lived through it. Focusing on Paris during the most radical years of the Jacobin republic, it argues that popular rumour helped to shape perceptions of the Revolution and provided communities with a framework with which to interpret an unstable world. Lindsay Porter explores the role of rumour as a phenomenon in itself, investigating the way in which the informal authority of the ‘word on the street’ was subject to a range of historical and contemporary prejudices. Drawing its conclusions from police reports and other archival sources, this study examines the potential of rumour both to unite and to divide communities, as rumour and hearsay began to play an important role in defining and judging personal commitment to the Revolution and what it meant to be a citizen.

Author Biography:

Lindsay Porter is the author of Who are the Illuminati? (2005) and Assassination: A Political History (2010), both of which were translated into several languages. She also contributed to Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia (2001). Her current research interests are in popular rumour and public opinion in the eighteenth century.

Release date Australia

March 12th, 2019

Author

Lindsay Porter

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

Illustrations

XII, 267 p.

Pages

267

Series

War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850

ISBN-13

9783319860473

Product ID

28975160

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