Title Becoming a revolutionary : the deputies of the French National Assembly and the emergence of a revolutionary culture (1789-1790) / Timothy Tackett

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1996] ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (373 pages) : illustrations Series Princeton legacy library Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. The Three Estates: A Collective Biography -- CHAPTER TWO. A Revolution of the Mind? -- CHAPTER THREE. The Political Apprenticeship -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Creation of the National Assembly -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Experience of Revolution -- CHAPTER SIX. Factional Formation and the Revolutionary Dynamic: August to November -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Deputies as Lawgivers -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Jacobins and Capuchins: The Revolutionary Dynamic through April 1790 -- CHAPTER NINE. To End a Revolution -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX I. Marriage Dowries of Deputies in Livres -- APPENDIX II. Estimated Deputy Fortunes and Incomes in Livres at the End of the Old Regime -- APPENDIX III. Leading Deputy Speakers during the National Assembly -- SOURCES -- INDEX Summary Here Timothy Tackett tests some of the diverse explanations of the origins of the French Revolution by examining the psychological itineraries of the individuals who launched it--the deputies of the Estates General and the National Assembly. Based on a wide variety of sources, notably the letters and diaries of over a hundred deputies, the book assesses their collective biographies and their cultural and political experience before and after 1789. In the face of the current "revisionist" orthodoxy, it argues that members of the Third Estate differed dramatically from the Nobility in wealth, status, and culture. Virtually all deputies were familiar with some elements of the Enlightenment, yet little evidence can be found before the Revolution of a coherent oppositional "ideology" or "discourse." Far from the inexperienced ideologues depicted by the revisionists, the Third Estate deputies emerge as practical men, more attracted to law, history, and science than to abstract philosophy. Insofar as they received advance instruction in the possibility of extensive reform, it came less from reading books than from involvement in municipal and regional politics and from the actions and decrees of the monarchy itself. Before their arrival in Versailles, few deputies envisioned changes that could be construed as "Revolutionary." Such new ideas emerged primarily in the process of the Assembly itself and continued to develop, in many cases, throughout the first year of the Revolution. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-337) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject France. Assemblée nationale constituante (1789-1791) SUBJECT France. Assemblée nationale constituante (1789-1791) fast Subject Political culture -- France -- History -- 18th century Legislators -- France -- Attitudes Enlightenment -- France -- Influence HISTORY -- Europe -- France. HISTORY -- Europe -- France. Enlightenment -- Influence Legislators -- Attitudes Political culture War -- Causes SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes Subject France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400864317 1400864313 9780691043845 0691043841 0691602441 9780691602448

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