Revolution and Environment in Southern France Peasants, Lords, and Murder in the Corbières 1780-1830

by McPhee, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780198207177
• ISBN10: 0198207174
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-29
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

In the forty years after the Revolution of 1789, the peasants and former seigneurs of the isolated region of the Corbières, Languedoc, fought a protracted battle over the consequences of revolutionary change. This social conflict culminated in the murder of two nobles by a band of villagers in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1830. This book offers important new perspectives on the French Revolution and its consequences.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables, and Figures	x	(1)
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(11)
1 'Cette miserable contree': The Corbieres in the 1780s	12	(28)
2 'Vassaux plus puissants que des Rois': The Revolution of 1789-1790	40	(21)
3 'Un peu de peur bien meritee': Peasant Revolution, 1790-1792	61	(33)
4 'Je verse des larmes de sang': Defending the Revolution, 1793-1795	94	(27)
5 'Cette rage de defricher': The Battle Over the Rural Environment, 1790-1800	121	(27)
6 'L'avidite de jouir': Social Reaction and the War on the Clearers, 1800-1830	148	(27)
7 'Une veritable fureur de plantation': The Transformation of the Rural Economy, 1789-1830	175	(30)
8 'Dur, fier et ardent': Murder in Villeseque, 1830	205	(27)
Conclusion: Revolution and Memory	232	(12)
Bibliography	244	(23)
Index	267