Volume 12, Number 9 · May 8, 1969
Tolerating the Terror
By C.B.A. Behrens
Artisans and Sans-Culottes
by Gwynn A. Williams
Norton, 128 pp., $5.00
Les Sans-Culottes
by Albert Soboul
Editions du Seuil, 256 pp., 6.50 F.
For some ten years or more now the Sans-Culottes have been establishing their claim to a front place on the stage of history. Their sponsors have been historians of various nationalities, but principally French (Professor Soboul) or English (Professor George Rudé and Mr. Richard Cobb). These historians' inspiration is Marxist and their acknowledged master Georges Lefebvre, who died in 1959. They more or less share a common language, literally as well as figuratively, since even the Englishmen sometimes write in French, and Mr. Cobb does so habitually.
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