Massacre at the Champ de Mars : popular dissent and political culture in the French Revolution /
On 17 July 1791 the revolutionary National Guard of Paris opened fire on a crowd of protesters: citizens believing themselves patriots trying to save France from the reinstatement of a traitor king. To the National Guard and their political superiors the protesters were the dregs of the people, brig...
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Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
Royal Historical Society : Boydell Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Royal Historical Society studies in history. New series.
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