Dialogues Révolutionnaires

Dialogues Révolutionnaires is an edition of twelve fictional dialogues of the Revolutionary period in which the various interlocuters try to come to terms with an evolving political reality and a language which is constantly developing. The dialogues will interest cultural historians wishing to have access to rare texts in which political satire and contemporary debate are always apparent. It will further interest specialists of the French language who wish to see how fictional texts attempt to incorporate the evolution of the language during the crisis. The texts themselves are lively and comic, offering a fantastic insight into the lives of ordinary people during the Revolution.

INTRODUCTION, V; BIBLIOGRAPHIE, XV; DIALOGUES REVOLUTIONNAIRES; Entretiens des politiques de la Halle, 3; Le Coup de Grace de l'Aristocratie, 13; La Mere fort en gueule, 21; Dialogue tres-vif, 27; Le Fripier national, 31; Le Grand Sabat, 37; M. Patience et M. Vite au But, 43; Grande visite de Mlle Republique, 49; Entretien d'un Feuillant et d'un Jacobin, 53; Dialogue pas mal raisonnable, 63; V'la c'qui s'est dit, 73; Le Falot du peuple, 83.

Malcom Cook is Emeritus Professor in French Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Exeter.