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Winner of the Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association, 1998, for the best book in Early Modern European History.
Timothy Tackett's Becoming a Revolutionary revisits one of the most controversial moments in history: the beginning of the French Revolution. How did it arise? Why did French men and women become revolutionaries? To answer these questions, Tackett focuses on the experiences of the 1200 members of the first French National Assembly. Drawing upon on a wide range of sources, including contemporary letters and diaries, Tackett shows that the deputies were a group of practical men, whose ideas were governed more by concrete subjects than by abstract philosophy. Though it may seem surprising now, most of the deputies were actually in support of the king. Instead of being initiated as a result of a specific ideology founded on Enlightenment principles, the ideas that eventually led to the French Revolution were, instead, a direct result of the actual process of the Assembly.
First published in 1996 and hailed as an "exemplary product of the historian's craft," Becoming a Revolutionary is now available in paperback for the first time.
Contents
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
The Enigma of the Revolution
The Witnesses and Their Testimony
Prospectus
PART I: DEPUTY BACKGROUNDS
1. THE THREE ESTATES: A Collective Biography
Numbers and General Profile
The Clergy
The Nobility
The Third Estate
2. A Revolution of the Mind?
The Deputies and the Enlightenment
Deputy Publications before the Revolution
The Religious Culture of the Deputies
Ideology and Revolution
3. The Political Apprenticeship
Political Mobilization after 1770
The Municipal Mobilization of 1788-1789
Birth of the Aristocratic Party
The Electoral Assemblies of 1789
Third Opinion on the Eve of the Estates General
Noble Opinion on the Eve of the Estates General
PART II: ORIGINS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY DYNAMIC
4. The Creation of the National Assembly
Factional Formation in the Early Third Estate
The Clerical Estate and the Dominance of the Episcopacy
The Noble Estate and the Culture of Intransigence
The Breton Club and the Emergence of a Third Consensus
The Revolutionary Moment
5. The Experience of Revolution
The Deputies and the King
The Mid-July Crisis
Violence
The Night of August 4
6. Fractional Formation and the Revolutionary Dynamic:
August to November
The Conservative Offensive
The September Debates and the Limited Victory of the Right
The October Days: Break and Continuity
The Formation of the Jacobins
PART III: POLITICS AND REVOLUTION
7. The Deputies as Lawgivers
The Struggle for Self-Definition
Organizing the Assembly
Bureaus and Committees
Leadership and Oratory
Constituency Relations
8. Jacobins and Capuchins: The Revolutionary Dynamic through April 1790
The Deputy Outlook after October
Political Alignments at the Beginning of 1790
The Advance of the Left through February 1790
The Religious Question and the Abortive Resurgence of the Right
9. To End a Revolution
The King's New Direction
Division of the Left and the Triumph of '89
The Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the Suppression of the Nobility
Commemorating the Revolution: The Federation of 1790
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX I
Marriage Dowries of Deputies in Livres
APPENDIX II
Estimated Deputy Fortunes and Incomes in Livres at the End of the Old Regime
APPENDIX III
Leading Deputy Speakers during the National Assembly
SOURCES
INDEX
