Victims, Authority, and Terror
George Armstrong Kelly
Broschiertes Buch

Victims, Authority, and Terror

The Parallel Deaths of D'Orleans, Custine, Bailly, and Malesherbes

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By means of a typology of authority, Kelly locates defined groups within the orbit of Jacobean hatred of all aristocracies and charts this course of logic through the collective biography of four significant victims of the Terror. Concluding that the Jacobean philosophy could not tolerate any residue of the aristocratic temper, he shows that, in essence, these men were executed because of their Old Regime connections. Kelly's method and conclusions challenge mainstream French revolutionary historiography. Originally published in 1982. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions...