Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… Club. It explores the reasons why the clubs strayed from their initial ideals of civil debate and succumbed to lethal factionalism. After reviewing historiographical debates, which portray the clubs alternatively as sources of tragic … teaching citizens how to work together to define and pursue common goals for a post-absolutist age. If they lapsed into factionalism, this was due to the polarising effect of circumstances, notably the king’s failed attempt to flee France in … 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 the French Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), …
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