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Patriotism, Pressmen and Political Culture in the French Revolution

The thousands of books published in the year of the French Revolution's bicentenaire have only reinforced the impression that for French, British and American historians alike, the 1980s was the decade in which the politics of the revolution were rediscovered. For those whom one might call the high priests of revisionism, this has led to fresh concentration on the primacy of elite politics and politicians, but if this approach to revolutionary studies remains compellingly fashionable (and one can see why), other scholars, like the majority of those whose books are reviewed here, have been drawn instead to the political culture from which the generation of revolutionary politicians emerged. The pioneering scholarship of Robert Darnton, Mona Ozouf and others, who more than anyone have given late eighteenth-century specialists some notion of the sheer richness of political culture in their period (and helped to popularize the concept) has borne rich fruit, nowhere more so than in the field of journalists and journalism, here further opened up by Censer, Popkin, Gelbart, Gough and Murray. Other historians have been led to elite critics of the old order in France who wanted