Everyday Politics and Culture in Revolutionary France

Suzanne Desan is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France and co-editor of The French Revolution in Global Perspective. She is currently writing a book on the October Days in the early French Revolution. Professor Bryant T. Ragan teaches early modern European history and the history of sexuality at The Colorado College. He presently participates on a research team that is developing an interactive website and relational database that focuses on the policing of male sodomy in eighteenth-century Paris (https://coloradocollege.website/phs/). Professor Victoria Thompson is Chair of the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is completing a book entitled King and Public in the Parisian Royal Square, 1748-89 that examines the relationship between the design, representation, and use of urban space and socio-political transformation.

‘The eight essays — substantial contributions by leading experts in the field — are linked by their investigations of grass-roots politics, the Revolution’s impact on daily life, and its legacy on memory and identity ... The essays are all excellent.’ Clare Siviter, French Studies

• Introduction: Suzanne Desan and Victoria E. ThompsonChapter 1: Victoria E. Thompson, “A perpetually agitated place: politics in the Tuileries Garden, 1789-1792”Chapter 2: Suzanne Desan, “Military men, violence, and gender in the October Days of 1789”Chapter 3: Jeff Horn, “Dechristianization and Terror in Champagne”Chapter 4: Bryant T. Ragan, “Same-sex sexual relations and the French Revolution: the decriminalization of sodomy in 1789”Chapter 5: William Max Nelson, “Leaping into the future: Enlightenment ideas of progress and French revolutionary time”Chapter 6: Jeff Ravel, “’Plus de rois, de dames, de valets’: playing cards during the French Revolution”Chapter 7: Denise Z. Davidson, “‘Notes et souvenirs ... sur la vie politique de mon père’: memory, mourning, and politics in the revolutionary era”Chapter 8: Jennifer Popiel, “Martyred virgins, embattled women, and mass culture: sentiment and authority in nineteenth-century religious images (1830-60)”Epilogue: Lynn Hunt, “Why the French Revolution continues to matter”Bibliography