By David Andress
On 17 July 1791 the innovative nationwide protect of Paris opened hearth on a crowd of protesters: electorate believing themselves patriots attempting to keep France from the reinstatement of a traitor king. To the nationwide shield and their political superiors the protesters have been the dregs of the folk, brigands paid by means of counter-revolutionary aristocrats. Politicians and reporters declared the nationwide defend the patriots, and their motion a heroic defence of the fledgling structure. below the Jacobin Republic of 1793, although, this "massacre" used to be considered as a excessive crime, a second of fact during which a corrupt elite uncovered its treasonable designs. This unique learn of the occasions of July 1791 and their antecedents seeks to appreciate how Parisians of alternative periods understood "patriotism", and the way it was once that their diversified solutions drove them to confront one another at the Champ de Mars. David Andress is Professor of contemporary historical past on the university of Social, ancient and Literary stories, collage of Portsmouth.
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