Selected Bibliography for The Meeting of August 10th
August 10th, 1792
de Baecque, Antoine. “From Royal Dignity to Republican Austerity: The Ritual for the
Reception of Louis XVI in the French National Assembly (1789-1792).” The Journal of
Modern History 66.4 (1994): 671-696, accessed October 21, 2012.
Cross, Elizabeth. “The Myth of the Foreign Enemy? The Brunswick Manifesto and the
Radicalization of the French Revolution.” French History 25, no. 2 (2011): 188-213.
Hardman, John. “The Last Year of the Monarchy, 1791-2.” In Louis XVI, 216-222. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.
The penultimate chapter of this book describes what happened to the king and the royal
family during and after the insurrection on August 10, 1792. The Tuileries was guarded
with Swiss troops, National Guard members, and armed nobles, but the National Guard
members turned against Louis XVI. The king surrendered to the revolutionaries and
ordered his guards to cease their gunfire. The royal family was taken and kept in a
reporters’ box for the first day of their captivity, then relocated to the Convent of the
Feuillants, and finally to the Temple and held as prisoners. EC
Redman, Harry J. “Étienne Aignan et ‘La mort de Louis XVI.’” Revue de la Societé d’Histoire
du Théâtre 58, no. 3 (2006)
Thomas, Max-Hervé, ed. “Une Lettre sur la prise des Tuileries.” Information Historique 21, no.
4 (1959): 182-183.
Vovelle, Michel. “The fall of the monarchy.” In The Fall of the French Monarchy, 230-232.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
This book describes the events leading up to the fall of the French monarchy on August
10, 1792. The section “The fall of the monarchy” focuses on the storming of the
Tuileries. The fédérés, along with men from Marseilles, went to the Tuileries and were
met with the fire of Swiss guards. The king ordered a cease-fire, but he no longer had
power over the people of France. EC
Whaley, Leigh. “Political Factions and the Second Revolution: the Insurrection of 10 August
1792.” French History 7, no. 2 (1993): 205-224
In this article, the author examines the possible causes of the storming of the Tuileries on
August 10, 1792. She suggests that it was not just the Montagnards who were involved
in the insurrection, but a much wider array of French people including Girondins, fédérés,
and Cordeliers. These groups were brought closer together and became a stronger
revolutionary force because of this revolt in 1792. The author also gives consequence for
this insurgence, including that it changed the government completely from a
constitutional monarchy to the Paris Commune. EC
Women’s Role in the French Revolution
Abray, Jane. "Feminism in the French Revolution." The American Historical Review 80, no. 1
(February 1975): 43-62.
Darrow, Margaret H. "French Noblewomen and the New Domesticity, 1750-1850." Feminist
Studies 5, no.1 (Spring 1979): 41-65.
Darrow argues in this work the change of noblewomen over the hundred years
mentioned, most of which occurred within the French Revolution, that they chose to
become more domesticated on their own accord. This was a political move that was to try
to get people to view them better and closer to the bourgeois model that had been
established. WB
Desan, Suzanne. "The Role of Women in Religious Riots During the French Revolution."
Eighteenth
-Century Studies 22, no. 3 (Spring 1989): 451-68.
Desan argues that during the French Revolution, many women were involved in the
religious that broke out. This was because the women of France were in change of the
well-being of the family, and that they wanted to make sure their family was saved for
salvation, which they believed came through the Church. WB
DiCaprio, Lisa. "Women Workers, State-Sponsored Work, and the Right to Subsistence during
the French Revolution." The Journal of Modern History 71, no. 3 (September 1999): 519-51.
Garrioch, David. "The Everyday Lives of Parisian Women and the October Days of 1789."
Social History 24, no. 3 (October 1999): 231-49.
Garrioch argues that during the October Days many women participated in riots over
food. The women of the French Revolution were in charge of getting the food on the
table for the family. During these days, bakers had raised the prices for their bread, and if
the women could not afford it, they would use sexual intercourse as a means of payment,
to which the women responded with violence and riots. WB
Rose, R.B. "Feminism, Women and the French Revolution." Historical Reflections / Réflexions
Historiques 21, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 187-205.
Vardi, Liana. "The Abolition of the Guilds during the French Revolution." French Historical
Studies 15, no. 4 (Fall 1988): 704-17.
Classicism, High Culture, and the background of the French Revolution
Greene, Christopher M. “Alexandre Lenoir and the musée des monuments francais during the
French Revolution.” French Historical Studies 12, no. 2 (Autumn 1981): 200-222.
Junyk, Ihor. 2008. "Spectacles of virtue: Classicism, Waxworks and the Festivals of the French
Revolution." Early Popular Visual Culture 6, no. 3 (November 2008): 281-304.
Citing sources such as James Ralph’s criticism of wax figures representing the people
buried at Westminster Abbey, Ihor argues that eighteenth century French painters and
connoisseurs of high culture dismissed waxworks and other imitative media as
entertainment for the masses without any artistic value. Philippe Curtius tried to
rehabilitate this medium for high culture. Jacques -Louis David, a friend of Curtius, used
Neo-Classical waxwork figures during festivals to instill republican ideals in the French
people such as civic duty. CL
Kelly, Armstrong George. “Conceptual Sources of the Terror.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 14,
no. 1 (Autumn 1980): 18-36.
Kelly charts the development of the cultural meaning of the word “terror” starting with
Montesquieu’s Persian Letters. He notes Buffon’s prehistoric terror of nature and the
terror of religion portrayed by the Marquis de Caraccioli. Kelly suggests that mankind
always has some terror to face. CL
Kley, Dale Van. “Church, State, and the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution: The
Debate over the General Assembly of the Gallican Clergy in 1765.” The Journal of
Modern History 51, no. 4 (December 1979): 629-666.
Meyer, Paul H. “Recent German Studies of the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns in
France.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 18, No. 3 (Spring 1985): 383-390.
Meyer analyzes several texts which discuss the eighteenth century debate in philosophy
and the arts on the value of classicism and modernism. Some of the texts discussed
include an anthology titled Ancients and Moderns in the Literary Debate of the
Eighteenth Century written in 1966 by Werner Krauss and Hans Kortum and a
monograph entitled The Dispute on the Subject of Antiquity in the Age of French
Classical Literature by Hans Kortum. CL
Mitchell, Hannah. “Art and the French Revolution: An Exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet.”
History Workshop , no. 5 (April 1978): 123-145.
Potts, Alex. “Beautiful Bodies and Dying Heroes: Images of Ideal Manhood in the French
Revolution.” History Workshop, no. 30 (October 1990): 1-21.
Potts attempts to bridge the discontinuity between neo-classical art’s portrayal of
republican virtue and its portrayal of sensual aesthetics. In particular, he describes how
the aesthetical features of The Death of Bara, a painting which portrays the death of a
young French patriot killed by counter revolutionary forces, were used for Revolutionary
propaganda. CL
Riffkin, Adrian. “Art and the French Revolution.” History Workshop, No. 6 (Autumn 1978):
218-221.
Rudé, George. Revolutionary Europe: 1783-1815. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1964.
Saisselin, R. G. 1981. "Neo-Classicism: Images of Public Virtue and Realties of Private Luxury."
Art History 4, no. 1 (March 1981): 14-36.
In this text, Saisselin, citing sources such as Luthy’s From Calvin to Rousseau,suggests
that neo-classical art during the eighteenth century was indicative of wealth. The main
argument in the essay is that the success of the neo-classical style was linked not to any
individual class but to its social meanings and its popularity with financiers, the nobility,
and the bourgeoisie. Categorizing the wealthy into distinct classes is also very difficult
because their familial ties linked them by marriage and their desire to be and appear
noble united them culturally. CL
William Beatley, Emma Cronenweth, and Christopher Lilley prepared this bibliography