Abstract
Abstract
The focus of this chapter is the course of the French Revolution from 1789 into 1794. It shows how all three types of terror overlapped temporally, reflecting the truncated nature of the revolutionary process in France. It also shows how, central to the French revolutionary process, was the politics of the streets—popular meetings, riots, demonstrations—and how this both interacted with the politics of the elite, and helped shape the unrolling of revolutionary and transformational terror. In contrast, inverted terror owed more to Robespierre than it did to popular mobilization. This chapter explores the impact of Robespierre’s on ‘The Terror’ of 1793–1794.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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