The Crowd: French Perspectives

Place de la République, Paris 27 April 2002

Barricades in Paris, 1848

Eugène Delacroix, La Liberté guidant le Peuple

Course outline

• Week 1: French perspectives on the crowd• 2: The shadow of Revolution in 19th century Paris• 3: Zola and the crowd (I). Strikes and socialism• 4: Zola and the crowd (II). The problem of

leadership• 5: Crowd psychology and the fin-de-siècle• 7: The crowd and the stage• 8: The crowd and the screen• 9: Street politics and the left (1918-45)• 10: Street politics and the right (1918-45)

The Crowd and Carnival

• Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and his world (1968)

• Christopher Hill, The World turned upside down. Radical ideas during the English Revolution (1972)

14 July 1789

Fête de la Fédération, 14 July 1790

French perspectives: seminar

Pillage des armes aux Invalides, le matin du 14 juillet 1789 (Jean-Baptiste Lallemand)

La Prise de la Bastille, le 14 juillet 1789 (Jean-Baptiste Lallemand)

L’Assaut, 28 January 1912