ICYMI, my musings on the French Revolution and "fake news" https://cathy.substack.com/p/history-narrative-and-fake-news …
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Oh yeah. My focus here is a bit different I think -- it's more generally unreliable narratives for a wide range of reasons.
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Interesting piece. Yes, trying to disentangle fact from fiction in those accounts can be challenging. A bit more on Corday portraits here http://tofindtheprinciples.blogspot.com/2011/07/july-anniversaries-execution-of.html … and here http://tofindtheprinciples.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post.html … Fun fact: Churchill owned a copy of the relatively little-known Hauer portait.
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Darnton there continues an argument with which he made his name in the '70s: the hypothesis that pornographic, gossipmongering publications critical of crown & nobility delegitimized the regime before the Revolution. Younger scholars have challenged this https://c18booktrade.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/curran-beyond-the-forbidden-best-sellers.pdf …
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