The French Revolution in Culture and Society

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Abbreviations vii
• Preface ix
• Introduction xi
• Notes xvi
• Part One - Creating a Revolutionary Culture 1
• 1 - The Kings Two Bodies Monuments, Mausoleums, and Museums of the French Revolution 3
• Notes 11
• 2 - Gilbert Romme and the Making of the French Republican Calendar 13
• Notes 21
• 3 - Generational Discourse in the French Revolution 23
• Notes 29
• Part Two - Ingredients from the Distant Past 33
• 4 - History Recreated or Malfunctioned Desire? the Roman Republic Re-Membered in the French Revolution 35
• Notes 43

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Abbreviations vii
• Preface ix
• Introduction xi
• Notes xvi
• Part One - Creating a Revolutionary Culture 1
• 1 - The Kings Two Bodies Monuments, Mausoleums, and Museums of the French Revolution 3
• Notes 11
• 2 - Gilbert Romme and the Making of the French Republican Calendar 13
• Notes 21
• 3 - Generational Discourse in the French Revolution 23
• Notes 29
• Part Two - Ingredients from the Distant Past 33
• 4 - History Recreated or Malfunctioned Desire? the Roman Republic Re-Membered in the French Revolution 35
• Notes 43
• 5 - Ecclesiological Insights at the 1790 National Assembly an Assessment of the Contribution of Catholic Thought to the French Revolution 45
• Notes 55
• 6 - Revolutionary Politics and Revolutionary Culture Shakespeare in France, 1789-1815 57
• Notes 66
• Part Three - Crisis in Culture: Pre- and Postrevolutionary 71
• 7 - La Faute E Figaro? 73
• Notes 80
• 8 - Gothic Sexuality and Social Decay in Diderot and Sade 81
• Notes 88
• 9 - Romanticism and the Revolution of 1789 a Psychohistorical View 91
• Notes 109
• 10 - Gender-Rising the Revolution la Duchesse de Langeais 111
• Notes 118
• Part Four - The Social Context of Cultural Revolution 121
• 11 - The French Army's Budget in the Eighteenth Century a Retreat from Loyalty 123
• Notes 133
• 12 - Change, Continuity, and the French Revolution Elite Discourse on Mendicity, 1750-1815 135
• Notes 146
• 13 - Ancien Regime Justice and the Revolution a Local Study 151
• Notes 160
• 14 - Ritualized Violence in Eighteenth-Century Perigord 165
• Notes 171
• 15 - Political Revolution and Contraceptive Revolution 175
• Notes 185
• Bibliography 189
• Index 205
• About the Editors and Contributors 217