The Great Fear Of 1789;: Rural Panic In Revolutionary France

This major work, graphically describes the panic, paranoia, andsocial chaos that sparked the Revolution. One of France's greathistorians analyzes the causes of the mass hysteria that overcame ruralFrance during the summer of 1789, as hungry villagers flocked into townsto look for work or to beg for charity, and as vagrants and beggarschoked the rural roads, threatening reprisals against householders whorefused to give them shelter or a crust of bread.