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Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… Résumé This entry examines the political clubs of the French Revolution, focusing especially on the Jacobin Club. It explores the reasons why the clubs strayed from their initial … of undermining and usurping state power. Practices > Politics & Society Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés Politics French Revolution Gender Democracy Violence law Sovereignty State Jacobin Club Faction Political clubs proliferated in …

Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]

… Résumé Jacques Necker, finance minister of France under the Old Regime (1777-1781) and then the revolution (1788-1790), was known for much more than his keen ability to mobilise credit. Thought to be an unwavering … opinion to show how the revolution ultimately shifted the terms of public opinion as a form of political sociability in French politics. People > Politics Concepts > Publicity Mots-clés Public opinion Third Estate French Revolution Public sphere revolutionary politics Political sociability Jacques Necker, a protestant banker from the …

Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… as well as through her publications. She was a tireless chronicler of social practices and historical events from the Revolution to the Restoration. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Mots-clés Women Salon Letters travelogue French Revolution Girondins napoleonic era National specificities sociable spaces Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) showed … American Revolution ( An American Tale , 1786) and, after learning about the absolutist policies of the Bourbons from a French couple who had been victims of that regime, for the French Revolution ( Julia , 1790). With their rights …

Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]

… Résumé This entry deals with female travel narratives to the Continent, with a focus on those written during the revolutionary decade (1789-1800). It aims to show how sociability – sociable practices, culture, values – was a key topic … up with the nature and form of the government. Practices > Reading & Writing Practices > Mobility Mots-clés Women Travel French Revolution travelogue wollstonecraft montagu beaumont biggs Williams In her preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s … la Fédération held on 14 July 1790, a spectacular representation of revolutionary sociability designed to celebrate the French people’s social regeneration. Her narrative is an attempt to describe the creation of new natural sociable bonds …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… public meetings, and political dinners. A description of the contested reputation of taverns in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Places > Food & Drink venues Mots-clés Tavern Sex trade Prostitution Public meeting French Revolution Radicalism Taverns provided important locations for middle-class male convivial gathering in …

William Wordsworth, the worldly recluse [ Art and Literature ]

… which is tied to notions of domesticity, community, and nation-building. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Solitude French Revolution Domesticity Politics Napoleon Poet Laureate In a letter of 27 October 1818 to Richard Woodhouse, John Keats … Britain: he wrote, but did not publish, the vitriolic Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793), in which he defended the French Revolution in the wake of the Terror; in the same year, he wrote Adventures on Salisbury Plain , a poem of social …