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

by Jill Walshaw

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 with attempting to reestablish the monarchy.
Drawing on archival sources ranging from village council minutes and reports of government spies to investigations into...

• 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"