Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… of undermining and usurping state power. Practices > Politics & Society Places > Clubs & Societies Mots-clés Clubs Crime Debate Democracy French Revolution Gender Law Politics Sovereignty State Violence Political clubs proliferated in … was not immediately forthcoming. In the meantime, the victims of ‘calumny’ – the intentionally false imputation of a crime or vice – had no legal recourse. All victims could do was denounce their ‘calumniators’, and perhaps up the ante by accusing them in turn of the high crime of lèse-nation – a kind of ‘sedition’ or ‘treason’ (The National Assembly recognised lèse-nation as a …
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