Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… : essai sur la naissance d’un mythe national (Paris : Seuil, 2006). For a more developed version of the arguments presented in this entry, see Charles Walton, ‘Clubs, Parties, Factions’, in David Andress (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of … boundary was blurred because sovereignty was thought to inhere in ‘the people’ as a whole, not just its elected representatives. In extending eligibility for club membership to all adult males by mid-1792, the Jacobins reinforced the … away with their principles and, despite their good intentions, sent a viable ‘liberal’ revolution – one rooted in representation and civil liberties – towards a phase of ‘terror’ and authoritarianism (1793-94), when hundreds of thousands …
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