DAVID ANDRESS Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of PortsmouthIAN H. BIRCHALL Writer specialising in the History of SocialismPATRICE BRET Research FellowLAURENCE BROCKLISS Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Magdalen College, OxfordJEAN-CLAUDE CARON Maître de Conférence in Contemporary History, Université de BesanconBARBARA I. COOPER Professor, Department of Languages, Literature and Culture, University of New HampshireMALCOLM CROOK Professor of French History, Keele UniversityDENISE DAVIDSON Assistant Professor of History, Georgia State University, AtlantaJOEL FELIX Lecturer, Department of French, University of ReadingFELICIA GORDON Leverhulme Emeritus FellowshipCOLIN LAWSON Chair of Performance Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonMUNRO PRICE Senior Lecturer, Department of European Studies, University of BradfordDAVID WISNER Associate Professor of History, The American College of Thessaloniki, Greece

This volume is a significant contribution to the cultural history of the period 1792-1824... -French Review

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART ONE New Dawns in the Making of Modern France: The Consequences of Revolutionary Change; M.F.Cross & D.Williams The Gendered Citizen: Marie-Madeleine Jodin (1741-1790); F.Gordon Representing the Sovereign People in the Terror; D.Andress When the Revolution Had to Stop; I.H.Birchall The Uses of Democracy: Elections and Plebiscites in Napoleonic France; M.Crook The Bishop of Pamiers: Political Thought and Experience from the Emigration to the Restoration; M.Price Painters and Public Patronage in the First French Republic: The Ministry of the Interior and the Art of the French Revolution; D.Wisner PART TWO The History of a Renaissance: The French University from the Revolution to the Restoration (1793-1824); J.C.Caron The New Paris Medical School and the Intervention of the Clinic; L.Brockliss Lefèvres Méthode de Clarinette (1802): The Paris Conservatoire at Work; C.Lawson Bonnes Lectures : Improving Women and Society through Literature in Post-Revolutionary France; D.Z.Davidson From Mobilisation to Normalisation: Networks and Scientific Practices for War (1793-1824); P.Bret Avant-garde Aristocrats? French Noblemen, Patents, and the Modernisation of France (1815-1848); J.Felix Inaugural Acts, Prefactory Texts: Paratextual Strategies for Restoring the Monarchy and a Theatre; B.T.Cooper Index