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Describing the Old Regime,he village) and that it was composed in the intimidating presence of Charles-Louis Dequin, the abbey’s own legal officer. Certainly, however, it was a highly unusual document in expressing the community’s apparently passive acceptance of its lot.

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,Reimagining Space and Power, 1789–91,ish and State level was to change abruptly and radically. People may have heard of the election of George Washington to the United States presidency in March 1789, but the new practice of popular sovereignty was none the less revolutionary for that.

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,Settling Scores: The Thermidorian Reaction, 1794–95,solidly pro-revolutionary areas, the years of military crisis had been ones of ceaseless demands for men and food for the armies at the same time as the once immutable authority of King and Pope and, at a local level, of seigneur, priest and local notable was repudiated.

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,In the Fires of War, 1792–93,ith most of the French clergy, the Pope had now decided that the war to overthrow the Republic was a crusade against godlessness: those killing French volunteers on the borders were doing God’s will. The central markers of power in the mental universe of French people were no longer in place.

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Introduction,al layers of meanings which may be teased out of this story. On the most immediate level it is, of course, an example of an outraged noble fulminating against the revolutionary madness which had engulfed his ‘vassals’, who in turn presented themselves as victims of longstanding oppression.

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,Deadly Divisions, 1791–92,pring of 1790 that old Europe would not accept revolutionary change in its midst. At the same time, the emergence of a more militant activism in Paris and other cities and towns was paralleled by a resurgence of protest in the countryside insistent on the abolition of remaining seigneurial claims.