MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Culottes, Sans-Culottes, Grassroots Democracy

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

The violent convulsions of revolution -- the jacobins" reign of terror (1793-1794) Absolut equality as primary goal of revolution. Elevating all men, even former slaves, to a selfless form of happiness. Dawn of a new revolutionary man and revolutionary society. Totalitarian rhetoric in the name of revolution. Condemned all the people with money, all the fat merchants, all the monopolists, law students, bankers, etc . All privileged groups targets of mob terror and social venom. Their name came from their dress -- they didn"t wear the culottes of the upper class. They would harass people even for speaking in a manner that would make them seem educated. Outbreak of mob violence sparked by food shortages in paris. There will be no bread unless we spill some blood . No other european power wanted to see france"s revolution succeed, so they stopped trading with revolutionary france. 1799 general plebiscite granting napoleon absolute autocratic power.