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Police Reports on Disturbances over Food Supplies (February 1793) February 24, 1793
The reports of the Paris police provide firsthand information about conditions in the city and about the leading role of women in food disturbances.
Police Report on a Session of the Cordeliers March 16, 1794
In the passage below, a police observer of a Cordelier Club meeting notes the ongoing concern of the participants to identify and then to denounce "conspiracies" against the republic, even when the conspitators had been very recently integral to the…
Plate: 1914–17 Quimper china 1914-1917
Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King (1 January 1789) January 1, 1789
Little is known about women’s grievances or feelings in the months leading up to the meeting of the Estates–General in November 1789. They did not have the right to meet as a group, draft grievances, or vote (except in isolated individual instances)…
Petition from 47 out of 48 Paris sections demands deposing the King. August 3, 1792
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Peter Kropotkin on the Need for Individual Action
The Russian author Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921) wrote prolifically about the French Revolution and about the ideology known as anarchism. He joined in the Russian revolutionary movement in 1872, was imprisoned by the tsarist state, and fled, escaping…