Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… to the poor and to the army at war after April 1792. In some respects, the clubs resembled modern political parties. In others, they prefigured thinktanks, charities and civic awareness groups. While the activities of French … : 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 the French Revolution (Oxford: Oxford University … (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2011), p. 158-174. It was only later that political clubs and parties would become stable sources of political sociability and influence in French political culture. This only became …
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