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² Ibid. p. xv.

³ Ibid. p. 96.

⁴ Ibid. p. 691.

⁵ Ibid. p. 98.

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⁷ Ibid. p. xiv.

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¹¹ Oxford history of the French revolution, p. 392.

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¹³ Ibid. p. 22.

¹⁴ See pp. 26–38, particularly p. 27 on the attempts by several parlements to exclude ‘bourgeois from the most desirable public employments’.

¹⁵ Ibid. p. 423.

¹⁶ Citizens, p. 290.

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²² My book, provisionally entitled Ancien régime, revolution and the rise and fall of industrial capitalism in the south-east of France, 1770–1830 will be published by Oxford Universit Press.

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²⁴ The French nobility in the eighteenth century, ch. five.

²⁵ Oxford history, p. 28.

²⁶ For a résumé of my argument concerning Pierre-François Tubeuf and his abortive attempts to introduce l'industrie en grand in the Alès coal-basin see the special issue of the Revue du Nord, La Révolution Française et le développement du capitalisme (Lille, 1989), pp. 243–55Google Scholar.

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²⁸ See, for example, ‘…it is equally hard to believe that the specifically anti-aristocratic, anti-feudal revolutionary ideology of the Rights of Man could have emerged as it did without the jumble of accident, miscalculation and misunderstanding which coalesced into a revolution in specifically French circumstances’, Oxford history, p. 424.

²⁹ Citizens, p. xvi.

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³⁵ Citizens, p. 615.

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³⁹ Ibid. p. 45.

⁴⁰ Citizens, p. 741.

⁴¹ Ibid. p. 551.

⁴² Ibid. pp. 399–400.

⁴³ Ibid. pp. 609–18.

⁴⁴ Ibid. pp. 630–9.

⁴⁵ Oxford history, p. 207.

⁴⁶ Ibid. p. 208.

⁴⁷ Ibid. p. 343.

⁴⁸ See Sutherland, D., France, 1789–1815: revolution and counterrevolution (London, 1985)Google Scholar which is a fine résumé of recent research on the period but which exaggerates the scope of the resistance to the revolution. Naturally, Professor Schama thinks that this work is ‘one of the most remarkable histories to have appeared for a long time’, although he eventually nails his colours to Cobban's, AlfredSocial interpretation of the French revolution, ‘once thought so scandalous’, Citizens, p. 906Google Scholar. I actually think that this collection of lectures has been vastly overrated, but then I am not easily scandalized.

⁴⁹ Oxford history, p. 111.

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