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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789

By (author) Robert Darnton

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When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the influence of Enlightenment thought. But what did Parisians themselves think they were doingâ€”how did they understand their world? What were the motivations and aspirations that guided their actions? In this dazzling history, Robert Darnton addresses these questions by drawing on decades of close study to conjure a past as vivid as todayâ€™s news. He explores eighteenth-century Paris as an information society much like our own, its news circuits centered in cafÃ©s, on park benches, and under the Palais-Royalâ€™s Tree of Cracow. Through pamphlets, gossip, underground newsletters, and public performances, the events of some forty yearsâ€”from disastrous treaties, official corruption, and royal debauchery to thrilling hot-air balloon ascents and new understandings of the nationâ€”all entered the churning collective consciousness of ordinary Parisians. As public trust in royal authority eroded and new horizons opened for them, Parisians prepared themselves for revolution. Darntonâ€™s authority and sure judgment enable readers to confidently navigate the passions and complexities of controversies over court politics, Church doctrine, and the economy. And his compact, luminous prose creates an immersive reading experience. Here is a riveting narrative that succeeds in making the past a living presence.

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