Description
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1973. Ultraroyalism in Toulouse examines in detail the origins of ultraroyal hostility to the social and political changes rendered by the French Revolution. France has produced a variety of theories of decline, corresponding to the nation's changing political fortunes in Europe and the world. The Revolution represented another, at least temporary, victory of the state apparatus over local community and privilege, and it stimulated the longing, apparent in all parts of the country after the fall of Napoleon, for a return to older forms of society and government that were essentially provincial and rural. The stevedores of Marseille, the fisherman of Brittany, and the peasants of the Auvergne saw plainly enough that the Revolution had not solved the problems of poverty and economic distress. Like the nobles, the ex-parlementarians, and the descendants of local oligarchies, they were hostile to the ascendancy of Paris. On all levels of French society were those wh
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Abbreviations
Sketch-map of Restoration Toulouse
Introduction
Chapter 1. Lous Seignous
Chapter 2. The Revolution: Sans Religiou
Chapter 3. From Bonaparte to the Bourbons
Chapter 4. Restoration Toulouse and the Ultras
Chapter 5. Local Government and the Ultras
Chapter 6. Law, Order, and the Ultras in Toulouse, 1815-1830
Chapter 7. The Ulba Mind
Chapter 8. The July Revolution and Legitimism in Toulouse
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
