The Great Fear of 1789: rural panic in revolutionary France

pt. 1. The countryside in 1789

1. Hunger

2. The wanderers

3. The riots

4. The beginnings of the revolution and the first peasant revolts

5. The people in arms and the first outbreaks of fear

pt. 2. The 'Aristocrats' plot

1. Paris and the Idea of conspiracy

2. How the news was spread

3. The reaction to the 'Plot' in the provinces: the towns

4. The reaction to the 'Plot' in the provinces: the countryside

5. The peasant revolts

6. The fear of brigands

pt. 3. The Great fear

1. Characteristics of the Great fear

2. The original panics

3. How the panics spread

4. The warning panics

5. The relays

6. The currents of the Great fear

7. The later fears

8. The consequences of the Great fear.