A Show of Hands for the Republic: Opinion, Information, and Repression in Eighteenth-Century Rural France

by Jill Walshaw

A fresh perspective on rural responses to the French Revolution, using sedition investigations to reveal how villagers took their place on the political stage.

In the French village of Segonzac in 1796, weaver Thomas Bordas spoke out during a municipal ceremony. Frustrated by how stifling the politics of the Revolution had become, he proposed a show of hands: who wants a republic, and who wants a king? Soon after, he was arrested and charged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464793
• ISBN13: 9781580464796
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"