Life in Revolutionary France

Mette Harder is Associate Professor of History at SUNY Oneonta, USA. Jennifer Ngaire Heuer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She is the author of The Family and The Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830 (2005).

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Rethinking the Revolutionary Everyday, Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer
Part I. Revolutionary Identities and Spaces
1. Republicans and Royalists: Seeking Authentic Rural Voices in the Sources of the
French Revolution, Jill Maciak Walshaw
Source: Trial of Thomas Bordas, a weaver from Segonzac, department of the Dordogne, accused of having publicly stated that he wanted to be governed by a king. 28 pluviôse–12 prairial year IV (February 17, 1796–May 31, 1796)
2. Mapping Women’s Everyday Lives in Revolutionary Marseille, Laura Talamante
Source: Deliberation of the Dames Citoyennes from the Saint-Martin District, no. 7, 7 July 1790
3. Emigration, Landlords, and Tenants in Revolutionary Paris, Hannah Callaway
Source: Overview of Rentals in the Boulainvilliers Market on 24 Fructidor VI (September 10, 1798)
4. Home Fronts and Battlefields: The Army, Warfare, and the Revolutionary Experience, Christopher Tozzi
Source (a): “It should come as no surprise if I want to make a Jew into a soldier.” Speech by the Abbé Henri Grégoire at the National Assembly, 23 December 1789
Source (b): From the Petition of the Jews Established in France addressed to the National Assembly, 28 January 1790
5. Race, Freedom, and Everyday Life: French Caribbean Prisoners of War in Britain,
Abigail Coppins and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer
Source: Undated Report on the State of the Prisons and Hospitals of Portchester and Forton (likely from the end of 1796), TNA (The National Archives) ADM 105/44
Part II. The Right To? – Revolutionary Justice at Work
6. Crime, Law, and Justice, Claire Cage
Source: Penal Code of 25 September 1791
7. Surveillance at Work: A Theft on the Rue du Bac, Ralph Kingston
Source: Defense Statement by Citizen Bonnet, former employee of the [French Ministry of] External Relations. Written after his termination for theft on 7 Fructidor VIII (August 25, 1800)
8. Sex as Work: Public Women in Revolutionary Paris, Clyde Plumauzille
Source: Letters by a Woman arrested for Prostitution under the “Terror”
9. Doctors, Radicalism, and the Right to Health: Three Visions from the French Revolution, Sean M. Quinlan
Source: The French Doctor and Legislator François Lanthenas on Freedom, Health
and Hygiene: De l’influence de la liberté sur la santé (1792)
Part III. Revolutionary Experience, Practices, Sensations
10. Tasting Liberty: Food and Revolution, E. C. Spary
Source: Anon., “L’Hydre aristocratique,” Paris, 1789
11. Spectacles of French Revolutionary Violence in the Atlantic World, Ashli White
Source: Massachusetts Mercury (Boston), December 25, 1795, page 3: This Evening – Advert for Bowen’s Museum
12. Practice and Belief: Religion in the Revolution, Jonathan Smyth
Source: Extract from Robespierre’s Speech on Freedom of Worship, made at the Jacobin Club, Paris on November 21, 1793 (1 Frimaire Year 2 of the Revolution)
13. Facing the Unknown: The Private Lives of Miniatures in the French Revolutionary Prison, Sophie Matthiesson
Source: Hubert Robert (1733–1808), Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745–1794) as he prepares to be transferred from Sainte-Pélagie to Saint-Lazare, 1794
14. Revolutionary Parents and Children: Everyday Lives in Times of Stress, Siân Reynolds
Source: The Families of Revolutionaries
Recommended Readings
Index