Life in Revolutionary France
Life in Revolutionary France
Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, eds.,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 5
https://h-france.net/vol22reviews/vol22no5Gressang.pdf
In this edited volume, they outlined four main goals:
- to introduce non-specialists to the French Revolution,
- to explore how studying every day experiences can reveal the Revolution’s power to affect people’s lives,
- to orient readers to themes of equality, citizenship, justice and violence,
- and to think about space and identity, experience and emotion,
helping us write about the experience of the everyday
Clyde Plumauzelle, “Sex as Work : Public Women in Revolutionary Paris
The primary source bundle for this chapter includes five letters from Marie-Antionette Barthelemy
from the Year III of the Republic that show the economic realities for women