… candidates and electors, elections could be significant sites of sociability and even festivity, in person and in print; but they could also generate unsociability in the form of drunkenness, hostility, bitter partisanship and even violence that many commentators saw as impolite and damaging to the political and social culture. Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Corruption Elections Impoliteness Politeness Politics Print culture Violence Parliamentary elections were the sites of both polite sociability and impolite, divisive, abusive …