Policing Public Opinion In The French Revolution
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Author | : Charles Walton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2009-02-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199710015 |
In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended into a period of political terror, as thousands were arrested, tried, and executed for crimes of expression and opinion. In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the origins of this reversal back to the Old Regime. He shows that while early advocates of press freedom sought to abolish pre-publication censorship, the majority still firmly believed injurious speech--or calumny--constituted a crime, even treason if it undermined the honor of sovereign authority or sacred collective values, such as religion and civic spirit. With the collapse of institutions responsible for regulating honor and morality in 1789, calumny proliferated, as did obsessions with it. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, from National Assembly debates to local police archives, Walton shows how struggles to set legal and moral limits on free speech led to the radicalization of politics, and eventually to the brutal liquidation of "calumniators" and fanatical efforts to rebuild society's moral foundation during the Terror of 1793-1794. With its emphasis on how revolutionaries drew upon cultural and political legacies of the Old Regime, this study sheds new light on the origins of the Terror and the French Revolution, as well as the history of free expression.
Author | : Charles Walton (professor of history) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Censorship |
ISBN | : 9780197715376 |
This work offers a different explanation of the origins of the 'Terror' phase of the French Revolution. It looks at the problems and pitfalls new democratic regimes face with free speech while trying to establish legitimacy.
Author | : George Charles Walton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Censorship |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Wollstonecraft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1794 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward James Kolla |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107179548 |
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
Author | : Charles Walton |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2009-02-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195367758 |
In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended into a period of political terror, as thousands were arrested, tried, and executed for crimes of expression and opinion.In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the origins of this reversal back to the Old Regime. He shows that while early advocates of press freedom sought to abolish pre-publication censorship, the majority still firmly believed injurious speech--or calumny--constituted a crime, even treason if it undermined the honor of sovereign authority or sacred collective values, such as religion and civic spirit.With the collapse of institutions responsible for regulating honor and morality in 1789, calumny proliferated, as did obsessions with it. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, from National Assembly debates to local police archives, Walton shows how struggles to set legal and moral limits on free speech led to the radicalization of politics, and eventually to the brutal liquidation of "calumniators" and fanatical efforts to rebuild society's moral foundation during the Terror of 1793-1794.With its emphasis on how revolutionaries drew upon cultural and political legacies of the Old Regime, this study sheds new light on the origins of the Terror and the French Revolution, as well as the history of free expression.
Author | : Jeremy D. Popkin |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822309970 |
The newspaper press was an essential aspect of the political culture of the French Revolution. Revolutionary News highlights the most significant features of this press in clear and vivid language. It breaks new ground in examining not only the famous journalists but the obscure publishers and the anonymous readers of the Revolutionary newspapers. Popkin examines the way press reporting affected Revolutionary crises and the way in which radical journalists like Marat and the Pere Duchene used their papers to promote democracy.
Author | : Robert Darnton |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393314427 |
Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.
Author | : Alexis de Tocqueville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Doyle |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2001-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192853961 |
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambition.