Jacobin Legacy: The Democratic Movement under the Directory

✍ Scribed by Isser Woloch

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 471
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 1658
• 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

Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Concordance of the Republican and Gregorian Calendars
Part 1: Origins and Testing
Part 2: Resurgence
Part 3: Confrontation: The Elections of 1798
Part 4: Towards Brumaire
Appendices
Note on Sources and Bibliography
Index