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Proceedings of the Quinze–Vingts Section August 3, 1792
In late July and early August 1792, amid ongoing rancor over the King’s role in the government and fears that he would betray the nation to the invading Prussians, various Parisian sections began petitioning for Louis to be deposed. In the text…
Proclamation of the Department of the Seine–et–Oise (9 March 1792) March 9, 1792
Despite the radical measures taken by the National Assembly, such as the abolition of nobility and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, social conflicts continued to manifest themselves after the National Assembly completed its work in 1791. In the…
Proclamation to the Army of Egypt (22 June 1798) June 22, 1798
In his Proclamation, issued en route to Egypt, Bonaparte explained his aims and urged his soldiers to respect the customs of the Muslims.
Protests of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Committees of the Assembly of Notables (1787) 1787
To consider Calonne’s proposed reforms, the Assembly of Notables broke up into committees, each of which issued a report. In these reports, the Notables expressed general agreement with some reform proposals, including the idea of regional,…
Prudhomme, "On the Influence of the Revolution on Women" (12 February 1791) February 12, 1791
Louis–Marie Prudhomme founded the Révolutions of Paris, one of the best–known radical newspapers of the French Revolution. In this editorial, he responds to women’s criticisms of the Revolution and outlines a theory of women’s "natural" domesticity.…
Prudhomme’s Description of the Coup against the Girondins (31 May–2 June 1793) May 31, 1793
Throughout the spring of 1793, radicals in the Convention, in the Paris Commune, and in the sections struggled for power against Jean–Pierre Brissot and his allies, known as the "Girondins." They differed over how the revolution should be affected by…
Puisaye to the Central Catholic Committee 1794
The fall of Robespierre and the Mountain in the summer of 1794 also reinvigorated counterrevolutionary forces, especially those hoping to restore royal authority in the person of the son of the "martyr" Louis XVI. We see evidence of efforts to…
Regulations of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women (9 July 1793) February 24, 1793
The regulations demonstrate that women wanted to be taken seriously as political participants; they wanted their club to be like the clubs set up by men.
Religion: The Cult of the Supreme Being June 8, 1794
Adapting the established strategy of staging public pageantry to win support for a political cause, Robespierre organized a "Festival of the Supreme Being" in the summer of 1794. Having recently eliminated his adversaries Hébert and Danton,…
Religious Conflicts after the Concordat (1803) 1803
Despite the official settlement with the papacy, some priests refused to bury those who had supported the pro–revolutionary wing of the church in the 1790s and others preached royalism from the pulpit. These excerpts come from a report made to the…