Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris 1792 1794 1st Edition by Lindsay Porter 331956966X 9783319569666

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ISBN 10: 331956966X

ISBN 13: 9783319569666

Author: Lindsay Porter

This book examines the impact of rumour during the French Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the experiences of those who lived through it. Focusing on Paris during the most radical years of the Jacobin republic, it argues that popular rumour helped to shape perceptions of the Revolution and provided communities with a framework with which to interpret an unstable world. Lindsay Porter explores the role of rumour as a phenomenon in itself, investigating the way in which the informal authority of the ‘word on the street’ was subject to a range of historical and contemporary prejudices. Drawing its conclusions from police reports and other archival sources, this study examines the potential of rumour both to unite and to divide communities, as rumour and hearsay began to play an important role in defining and judging personal commitment to the Revolution and what it meant to be a citizen.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. “Prenez Garde Citoyens!”: Policing Popular Rumour

3. “Un Bruit de Frayeur Se Répand”: Informal Communication Networks and the Creation of Rumour

4. Rumour, Riots, Feasts and Famines

5. Rumour and Community: Solidarity and Conflict in the Sans-Culotte Neighbourhoods of Year II

6. Rumour, Reputation and Identity

7. Rumour, Denunciation and Terror

8. Conclusion

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