The Making of Revolutionary Paris

398 Pages·2002·5.06 MB·English

by  David Garrioch

THE MAKING OF
REVOLUTIONARY PARIS
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the
generous contribution to this book provided
by the General Endowment Fund of the
University of California Press Associates.
DAVID GARRIOCH
THE MAKING OF
REVOLUTIONARY PARIS
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University of California Press
Berkeley
Los Angeles
London
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
© 2002 by the Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garrioch, David.
The making of revolutionary Paris / David
Garrioch.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN0-520-23253-4.
1. Paris (France)—History—1715–1789.
2. Paris (France)—Social life and customs—18th
century. I. Title.
DC729 .G33 2002
944'.36—dc21 2001008255
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
part i · The Social Order of Customary Paris
1. The Patterns of Urban Life 15
2. The Poor You Have with You Always 45
3. Not Servants but Workers 64
4. Each According to His Station 84
part ii · City Government and Popular Discontent
5. Bread, Police, and Protest 115
6. Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Religion and Politics 142
part iii · Making a New Rome
7. Affaires du Temps 163
8. Secularization 184
9. Urbanism or Despotism? 207
viii Contents
10. The Integration of the City 237
11. Plebeian Culture, Metropolitan Culture 260
12. The City and the Revolution 283
Epilogue: The New Paris 303
Notes 321
Selected Reading 367
Index 373
ILLUSTRATIONS
figures
1. Jean-Baptiste François Genillion, Vue générale du Pont
Neuf,ca. 1780 2
2. Antoine Borel, Le charlatan,1774 21
3. Anonymous engraving showing procession of the relics
of Saint Genevieve, 1694 25
4. Anonymous engraving depicting street sociability, 1783 27
5. Charles Marville, photo of wagons near the central
market, rue de la Grande Truanderie, ca. 1865 33
6. Etienne Jeaurat, La servante congédiée,engraving 37
7. The beggar, engraving from Jean Duplessi-Bertaux, in
Recueil de cent sujets(Paris, 1814) 51
8. P. Emouts, photo of a doorway to the office of the linen
weavers’ corporation, 1881 70
9. Jean Duplessi-Bertaux, Cauldron maker’s workshop,
engraving in Ouvriers et métiers de Paris(n.p., n.d.) 81
10. Jean Michel Moreau, La grande toilette, engraving in
Monuments du costume physique(Paris, n.d. [1775]) 91
11. Gateway of a noble house in the Faubourg St-Germain,
67 rue de Lille 92
12. Garden of the Hôtel de Rohan 93
13. Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet, Le retour du bal,ca. 1750 100
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