The French Legislative Assembly of 1791
Author : C. J. Mitchell
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004089617
Author : C. J. Mitchell
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004089617
Author : James Mitchell
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Page : 1410 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 1978
Category : France
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Author : Jacques Pierre Imbert-Colomès
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 1887
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 1791
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Author : James C. Mazza
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 2011
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This study challenges the assumption that an indictment and discarding of history formed the only strand of the French Revolution's discourse about the past. A consideration of debates and speeches in the Constituent Assembly (1789--1791) and the Legislative Assembly (1791--1792) reveals that engagement with the national past was part of the revolutionary experience. During 1789--1791 deputies in the center and on the left looked back to the examples of pre-Bourbon representative assemblies and Christian antiquity. Deputies periodized the past into distinct eras, agreed that despotism made its appearance in the early seventeenth century, and skipped over the Bourbon era to return to what was valuable in the political practice of the Renaissance and Middle Ages. These deputies were influenced by pre-Revolutionary ways of thinking about the past, while also injecting modern invocations of national will and sovereignty into their evocations of past ages. They constructed competing historical narratives and used history in several ways, sometimes simply searching for examples or parallels but sometimes establishing a deeper connection or continuity between the Revolution and the past. This study further argues that the Revolution did break with the past, but that this did not occur until the lifetime of the Legislative Assembly and was fueled more by circumstances than by revolutionary ideology. This is when Lynn Hunt's "new men for new times" came to the fore: these deputies, younger than those to the Constituent Assembly and radicalized by their experience of Revolution and counter-Revolution, did eventually abandon history. In 1792 the long struggle with non-juring priests and emigres--as well as the king's ill-advised vetoes of legislation directed against them--finally cut off the Revolution from the national past. In emphasizing how the break with history reflects a break in the Revolution and drawing distinctions between these two assemblies and two periods of the Revolution, this study sides with Timothy Tackett and Michael Fitzsimmons in challenging Francois Furet's tendency to view the Revolution en bloc and to argue that the Terror unfolded from the principles of 1789.
Author : C. J. Mitchell
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Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1971
Category : France
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Author : France. Assemblée nationale législative (1791-1792)
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1792
Category : France
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Author : France. Assemblée nationale législative (1791-1792)
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 1791
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Author : Muriel Orlidge Davis
Publisher : General Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2009-08
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ISBN : 9781458901293
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY AND THE CONVENTION When the Constituent Assembly disbanded, it was generally hoped in France that, its work at last being finished, the long-looked-for era of peace and prosperity would begin, and that this would be secured by a new Assembly keeping the much desired Constitution working. But, alas for such aspirations, the life of the new Legislative Assembly was short and stormy. It met on October 1, 1791; it came to an end in September 1792. In less than a year France had been disabused of her hopes of the Golden Age. A great increase of misery and unrest had come upon the country, and there must have been few who were not filled with forebodings for the future. Enthusiasm for the ideals of the Revolution had blinded the French people to facts which now seem to us glaringly qbvious, and which from the first doomed the Legislative Assembly to failure. For instance, as we saw in the last chapter, all members of the Constituent Assembly were excluded. The deputies of the new Assembly were men who had all their experience to learn; the bitter wranglings and contentions of the National Assembly were certain to recur. Furthermore, not only was experience denied an entry but the waywas also barred to many men of honest convictions; for in order to qualify as a deputy it was necessary to take the civic oath, which, among other things, implied acquiescence in the Civil Constitution of the clergy. Now many orthodox Catholics were unwilling to take this oath; thus, this condition automatically eliminated those who were honest enough to stand by their convictions. These two difficulties arose from bad legislation. There was another cause which made it also highly improbable that the Assembly would be moderate in tone, or that it would be o...
Author : Gouverneur Morris
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Page : 680 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1971
Category : France
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