Imaging the French revolution: Depictions of the french revolutionary crowd

American Historical Review

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-45

  Censer, Jack ^a   Hunt, Lynn ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33749682054     PISSN: 00028762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/531120     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. George Rudé, The Crowd in the French Revolution (Oxford, 1959). The quotation is on page 4.
2. Rude, The Crowd, 178-90.
3. Albert Soboul, The Parisian Sans-Culottes and the French Revolution, 1793-4, trans. Gwynne Lewis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964);
4. Richard Mowery Andrews, "Social Structures, Political Elites and Ideology in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-94: A Critical Evaluation of Albert Soboul's Les SansCulottes Parisiens en l'an II," Journal of Social History 19, no. 1 (1985): 71-112.
5. See, for example, Suzanne Desan, "Crowds, Community, and Ritual in the Work of E. P. Thompson and Natalie Davis," in Lynn Hunt, ed., The New Cultural History (Berkeley, Calif., 1989), 47-71.
6. As quoted in Susanna Barrows, Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in Late Nineteenth-Century France (New Haven, Conn., 1981), 169.
7. Colin Lucas, "The Crowd and Politics between 'Ancien Régime' and Revolution in France," The Journal of Modern History, 60 (September 1988): 421-457, quote p. 451.
8. Lucas, "The Crowd and Politics," 452.
9. Michel Vovelle, ed., La Révolution française: Images et récit, 1789-1799, 5 vols. (Paris, 1986), 1: 13-14.
10. e siècles) (Paris, 1995), 322.
11. The Bibliothéque Nationale de France has by far the largest collection of revolutionary prints, but the cost of reproducing them for our purposes was too high. Anyone wishing to carry out research on this topic must consult their collections, and we have on many occasions. The Musée Carnavalet in Paris also has many prints and engravings. These are now in the process of digitization and when available will be a marvelous on-line resource for researchers.
12. Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (University Park, Penn., 2001).
13. The best known of these catalogues is Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des estampes. Collection de Vinck, Un siècle d'histoire de France par l'estampe, 1770-1871; Collection de Vinck; inventaire analytique, 8 vols. (Paris, 1909-).
14. The videodisk accompanies Images de la Révolution française (Paris, 1990).
15. "When the guillotine operates, when cannons and rifles talk, it is rare that art flourishes." Jean Tulard, Jean-François Fayard, and Alfred Fierro, Histoire et dictionnaire de la Révolution française, 1789-1799 (Paris, 1987), the article Beaux-arts, p. 572
16. as quoted in Claudette Hould, "La Gravure révolutionnaire et son impact sur les consciences," in Michel Grenon, ed., L'Image de la Révolution française au Québec, 1789-1989 (Ville LaSalle, Québec, 1989), 173-82, quote p. 173.