David Garrioch is Senior Lecturer in History, Monash University, Australia, and the author of Neighbourhood and Community in Paris, 1740–1790.

David Garrioch’s new book boasts a veritably mouth-watering title. Those who know Dr. Garrioch’s earlier work on neighbourhood and community in eighteenth-century Paris will not be disappointed by the quality of his research and the extent of the archival sources on which his work is based—there has been page-turning and carton-wielding of heroic proportions behind this study. Very unusual for a work of this type, moreover, is the character of those sources: Dr. Garrioch draws extremely copiously on the archives of local self-government in Paris—parishional, ecclesiastical and police archives, plus the riches of the Minutier Central—to delineate a middle class captured essentially in terms of its engagement in local politics… This is a book which reads extremely well and which offers a thought-provoking new angle on a number of major problems of contemporary historiographical concern… Dr. Garrioch’s brave study highlights the importance of the development of the bourgeoisie in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, and underlines the need for an even more inclusive recounting of their history.

• Part I The Jansenist years: the work of Satan; the elect; the ruling families; power and local politics. Part II The changing of the guard: the decline of lineage; the new families and the new politics. Part III Revolution: the revolution in local politics. Part IV Paris of the notables, 1795-1830: interregnum; commerce, science, administration; the tutelage of the State.

David Garrioch is Senior Lecturer in History, Monash University, Australia, and the author of Neighbourhood and Community in Paris, 1740–1790.

David Garrioch’s new book boasts a veritably mouth-watering title. Those who know Dr. Garrioch’s earlier work on neighbourhood and community in eighteenth-century Paris will not be disappointed by the quality of his research and the extent of the archival sources on which his work is based—there has been page-turning and carton-wielding of heroic proportions behind this study. Very unusual for a work of this type, moreover, is the character of those sources: Dr. Garrioch draws extremely copiously on the archives of local self-government in Paris—parishional, ecclesiastical and police archives, plus the riches of the Minutier Central—to delineate a middle class captured essentially in terms of its engagement in local politics… This is a book which reads extremely well and which offers a thought-provoking new angle on a number of major problems of contemporary historiographical concern… Dr. Garrioch’s brave study highlights the importance of the development of the bourgeoisie in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, and underlines the need for an even more inclusive recounting of their history.

• Part I The Jansenist years: the work of Satan; the elect; the ruling families; power and local politics. Part II The changing of the guard: the decline of lineage; the new families and the new politics. Part III Revolution: the revolution in local politics. Part IV Paris of the notables, 1795-1830: interregnum; commerce, science, administration; the tutelage of the State.

David Garrioch is Senior Lecturer in History, Monash University, Australia, and the author of Neighbourhood and Community in Paris, 1740–1790.

David Garrioch’s new book boasts a veritably mouth-watering title. Those who know Dr. Garrioch’s earlier work on neighbourhood and community in eighteenth-century Paris will not be disappointed by the quality of his research and the extent of the archival sources on which his work is based—there has been page-turning and carton-wielding of heroic proportions behind this study. Very unusual for a work of this type, moreover, is the character of those sources: Dr. Garrioch draws extremely copiously on the archives of local self-government in Paris—parishional, ecclesiastical and police archives, plus the riches of the Minutier Central—to delineate a middle class captured essentially in terms of its engagement in local politics… This is a book which reads extremely well and which offers a thought-provoking new angle on a number of major problems of contemporary historiographical concern… Dr. Garrioch’s brave study highlights the importance of the development of the bourgeoisie in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France, and underlines the need for an even more inclusive recounting of their history.

• Part I The Jansenist years: the work of Satan; the elect; the ruling families; power and local politics. Part II The changing of the guard: the decline of lineage; the new families and the new politics. Part III Revolution: the revolution in local politics. Part IV Paris of the notables, 1795-1830: interregnum; commerce, science, administration; the tutelage of the State.