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Schama, Simon.

Citizens : a chronicle of the French Revolution / - 1st edition. - xx, 948 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Donated in Honor of Dr. Lionel V. Patenaude.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 879-906) and index.

Alterations: the France of Louis XVI -- New men -- Blue horizons, red ink -- Absolutism attacked -- The cultural construction of a citizen -- The costs of modernity -- Expectations -- Body politics -- Suicides, 1787-1788 -- Grievances, Autumn 1788-Spring 1789 -- Improvising a nation -- Bastille, July 1789 -- Choices -- Reason and unreason, July-November 1789 -- Acts of faith, October 1789-July 1790 -- Departures, August 1790-July 1791 -- "Marseillaise," September 1791-August 1792 -- Impure blood, August 1792-January 1793 -- Virtue and death -- Enemies of the people? winter-spring 1793 -- "Terror is the order of the day" -- The politics of turpitude -- Chiliasm, April-July 1794.

Considers the fullest resources of social, cultural, and political history and includes accounts of private and public lives to help see the reality of the revolution.

ISBN: 0394559487 9780394559483

LCCN: 88045320

Subjects--Meeting Names:
Revolution (France : 1789-1799)

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1789 - 1799

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Franse Revolutie.
Franz�osische Revolution.
Geschichte.
Franz�osische Revolution.
Geschichte.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
France--Histoire--1789-1799 (R�evolution)
France--Histoire--1789-1799 (R�evolution)
France.
France--Histoire--1789-1799 (R�evolution)
France--Histoire--1789-1799 (Revolution)

Subjects--Index Terms: France History Revolution, 1789-1799

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: DC148 / .S43 1989

Dewey Class. No.: 944.04