La République au Village in the Southern Massif-Central, 1789–1799
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8959028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Jones (0000-0001-5089-4143, University of Birmingham, corresponding author), P M Jones (0000-0003-4527-3427) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 793-812 |
| Publication date | 1980-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00025073 |
| OpenAlex | W2125620886 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
To most Frenchmen of the revolutionary generation the south conjured up a stereotype image of militant royalism in which bizarrely accoutred peasants followed ci-devant seigneurs and priests into battle and murder gangs toiled under a burning sun. The principal weakness of such a view lies not in the factual detail nor even in the presumption that the entire population was insurgent, but in its essentially linear perspective. As a recent historian has observed, the south can be characterized not only by its fervent royalist commitment but also by its predilection for the politics of extremes. The complicating and exacerbating factor in this southern counter-revolutionary equation was the presence of a parallel and equally uncompromising loyalty to the Republic. Of course, both stances were rationalizations whose ideological content needs careful weighing, but their interaction in small and often volatile communities provided counter-revolution with a dynamic which perpetuated confrontation and drove each side to extremes of savagery and fanaticism
Cartography · Doctrine · Fanaticism · Geography · Ideology · Massif · Militant · Political science · Politics · Population · Presumption · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Demography · European Political History Analysis · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
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| Citation span | 1984 - 2024 (41) |
| Highly cited | No |