Proximity and political mobilization. Neighbours and neighbourhoods in Paris during the Revolution

28/01/2021
Local: 5:30 pm
Paris: 5:30 pm
Paris Institute of Advanced Studies (online)
France
French
http://www.paris-iea.fr/

Paris during the Revolution evokes a series of commonplaces that literature, cinema, television and video games perpetuate without much nuance: the stormy debates in the Assembly, the energetic mobilizations in the Parisian sections, or the generalized distrust in the streets of the capital, encouraged by the law of suspects.

However, this session intends to explore, as closely as possible to the actors in the field, the relations of proximity, the solidarities and the concrete realities of neighbourhood and proximity in Paris between 1789 and 1794. Can we be close in a capital undergoing a revolution? What does this proximity mean and what are its political effects?

These questions will be addressed by three of the best international specialists of the revolutionary era:

  • Pascal Bastien (Université du Québec à Montréal/GRHS - IEA Paris), " ''Follow us! Confidence, Anger and Popular Mobilization in the Spring of 1789".
  • Simon Macdonald (Queen Mary University London - IEA Paris), "Suspicious Neighbours? Britons in Paris during the French Revolution".
  • Colin Jones (Queen Mary University London - IEA of Paris), "Robespierre, Paris and the Parisians".

This event will take place entirely online, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, due to the health context. Pre-registration on the IEA Paris website(www.paris-iea.fr) to receive the login link.