A show of hands for the republic : opinion, information, and repression in eighteenth-century rural France / Jill Maciak Walshaw.
In 1796, Thomas Bordas was indicted for ""seditious speech"" after proposing a simple vote -- a ""show of hands""--To determine who wanted a republic, and who wanted a king. In 'A Show of Hands for the Republic', Jill Maciak Walshaw uses hundreds of...
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Rochester, NY :
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2014.
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| Series: | Changing perspectives on early modern Europe.
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