Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic Movement Under the Directory

✍ Scribed by Isser Woloch

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 471
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Professor Woloch shows that Jacobinism survived and forcefully developed into a constitutional party under the conservative Directorial republic. The Jacobin legacy was a mode of political activism--the local political club--and a constellation of attitudes which might be called the democratic persuasion. By focusing on the nature of this persuasion and the way that it was articulated in the Neo-Jacobin clubs, the author provides a fresh perspective on the history of Jacobinism, and on the fate of the Directorial republic.

Originally published in 1970.

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✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Concordance of the Republican and Gregorian Calendars
Abbreviations Used in Footnotes
Part One: Origins and Testing
I. Introduction: The Jacobin Clubs, 1792-95
II. The Problems of Reorientation
III. The Struggle for Survival: From Vendôme to Fructidor
Part Two: Resurgence
IV. The New Clubs: Social Consciousness and Composition
V. Jacobin Civisme: The Clubs in Action
VI. The Democratic Persuasion: Attitudes and Issues
VII. Ideology and Patronage: A Case Study of Evreux
VIII. Neo-Jacobinism and the Parisian Sans-Culottes
Part Three: Confrontation: The Elections of 1798
IX. Franchise Reform and Electoral Organization
X. Party Conflict: Jacobins and Directorial
XI. Electors and Elections in Paris
Part Four: Towards Brumaire
XII. The Vicissitudes of Opposition: From Floréal to the Journée of 30 prairial VII
XIII. The Last Stand: Jacobinism and Anti-Jacobinism in the War Crisis of 1799
Appendices
Appendix I. Signatures on Petitions of the Constitutional Circle of the Faubourg Antoine
Appendix II. Occupations and Political Background of some members of the Constitutional Circle of the Faubourg Antoine
Appendix III. Patronage in the Faubourg Antoine under Sotin
Appendix IV. The Career of René Vatar
Note on Sources and Bibliography
Index