Redefining the Monarchiens: the failure of moderation in the French Revolution

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dc.contributor.authorRobitaille, Mathieu
dc.contributor.supervisorAlexander, R. S.
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-24T22:59:48Z
dc.date.available2010-08-24T22:59:48Z
dc.date.copyright2010en
dc.date.issued2010-08-24T22:59:48Z
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Historyen
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThe French Revolution continues to fascinate historians. The political culture which it is said to have spawned has recently become a particularly salient feature in its recent historiography. Many have argued that the discrepancy between the hopes that the Revolution initially generated and the destruction, war, and terror that followed was the inevitable result of this culture. Within this framework, the defeat of the constitutional proposals of the group of moderate politicians known as the Monarchiens has been portrayed as the Revolution’s missed opportunity to avoid the violence of the Terror. Their most important proposals were for a bicameral legislature and strong royal authority. My thesis questions assumptions about the ideological coherence of the five most influential proponents of this model and the inevitability of their defeat. To do this, I will analyze the pre-revolutionary political careers of these men up to the defeat of their proposals in the summer of 1789, and demonstrate that their political proposals were contingent on the political context, often changing drastically to fit the demands of circumstance.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/2966
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben
dc.subjectFrench Revolutionen
dc.subjectPolitical Historyen
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Europe--Historyen
dc.titleRedefining the Monarchiens: the failure of moderation in the French Revolutionen
dc.typeThesisen

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