- Acknowledgments
- Map
- Introduction
- Part I: The Assembly of Notables: February–May 1787, November–December 1788
- 1. Paths to Political Consciousness: The Notables in the First Assembly, February–May 1787
- 2. Privilege, Property, and Participation: A Mutation in Elite Political Culture
- 3. The Society of Orders at Its Demise: The Vision of the Elite at the End of the Ancien Régime
- Part II: The Media and the Public: Networks of Information, Opinion, Instruction
- 4. Political News as Coded Messages: The Parisian and Provincial Press, 1787–1788
- 5. The French Foreign-Language Press: Gazettes
- 6. The French Foreign-Language Press: Journals of Opinion
- 7. Manuscript Newsletters—Nouvelles à la Main
- 8. Pamphlets: A Network of Political Education and Polemics
- 9. Readers and Reading Sites: The Public and the Network of the Printed and Written Media
- 10. The Verbal, the Visual and the Festive
- Part III: At the “Grass Roots”
- 11. Popular Pamphlets: Political Messages to the Public
- 12. Can We Hear the Voices of Peasants?
- 13. The “Grass Roots”: Community Assemblies Deliberating
- Conclusion
- Appendix I: Chronology
- Appendix II: Contemporary Accounts of Fêtes
- Bibliographical Abbreviations
- Notes
HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES
Harvard Historical Studies 157
The Notables and the Nation
The Political Schooling of the French, 1787–1788
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