The Unseen Terror: The French Revolution in the Provinces
by Richard Ballard
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"From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French Revolution. Indeed, for many historians, the Revolution was a distinctly Parisian phenomenon, restricted to the galleries of the Tuileries and the chambers of the Jacobin Club. But Paris was only one setting for a national terror which was frequently and painfully felt outside the capital. What happened during these momentous years beyond Paris? How did the revolution show more spread from the capital and how did it affect people living in the provinces? Drawing on newly discovered and unpublished sources which cast fresh light on the lives of everyday men and women caught up in the revolutionary ferment, "The Unseen Terror" vividly portrays the impact of revolution in the French provinces. Focusing on the Charente-Maritime department on the west coast, Richard Ballard explores the course of the Revolution outside the palaces and prisons of the capital, reclaiming the pivotal but long-neglected stories of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary tensions in the French countryside. "The Unseen Terror" offers many illuminating insights into how and why the revolution took hold so far away from the French capital. It offers a unique glimpse of the violent events of the Revolution 'from below' and is a rich and important contribution to a fuller understanding of French history."--Bloomsbury Publishing. show lessTags
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- Charles-Jean-Marie Alquier; Bernard de Saintes; Charles Auguste Blutel; Napoleon Bonaparte; Jean-Louis Carra; Jean Eutrope Vanderquand (show all 47); Maximilien de Robespierre; Jacques Roux; Jacques Necker; Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, prince de Talleyrand; Louis Marie Turreau; Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès; Anne Marie de Saint-Dizant; Isaac-Étienne Robinet; Michel Louis Etienne Regnaud, 1st Count Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély; Joseph Niou; Claude-Alexandre Normand, Baron d'Authon; Louis-Nicolas Lemercier; Jean-Paul Marat; François-Guillaume Marillet de La Courboisière; Pierre Martin (French Navy officer); Francisco Javier de Melgarejo y de Rojas; Etienne Gounot, Marquis de Monconseil; Louis XVI, King of France; François- André- Louis Lévesquot; Joseph Lequinio; Louis Legendre; Mathieu-Marie Le Dall de Tromelin; Pierre-Louis de La Rochefoucauld-Bayers; Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet; Joseph François Laignelot; Jean Bouquet; Jean Baptiste René Laly; Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood; Jacques Hébert; Jacques Garnier de Saintes; Pierre Isaac Garesché; Henri, Marquis de Grailly; Georges Danton; Jacques-Louis David; Joseph-Honoré Darbelet; Paul Chevillard; Jean-Charles de Coucy; Joseph Claude Auguste Crassous de Médeuil; Jean Dalbarade; François Athanase Charette de La Contrie; François Claude Amour du Chariol, marquis de Bouillé
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- La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Saintes, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Jonzac, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Saint-Jean-d'Angély, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Taillebourg, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France (show all 16); Saint-Savinien-sur-Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Saint-Saturnin de Séchaud, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Rioux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Île de Ré, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Port-d'Envaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Île d'Oléron, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France; Marennes, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Paris, Île-de-France, France; Crazannes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
- Important events
- Nancy Affair (1790); Revolt in the Vendée (1793 - 1796); Storming of the Bastille (1789); Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); Reign of Terror (6 September 1793 – 28 July 1794); Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789) (show all 10); Revolutionary Dechristianization of France (1789-1794); Concordat of 1801; Law of Suspects (1793); Thermidorian Reaction (1794)
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