Advertisement

The Culture of French Revolutionary Diplomacy

In the Face of Europe

  • Linda Frey
  • Marsha Frey
Book

Part of the Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations book series (SID)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
    PDF
  2. Introduction
    Linda Frey, Marsha Frey
    Pages 1-21
  3. Mise en Scène: The Indictment
    Linda Frey, Marsha Frey
    Pages 23-63
  4. The Enemy Within: The Attack on Diplomats
    Linda Frey, Marsha Frey
    Pages 65-95
  5. The Revolutionary Theater of Power: Precedence and Etiquette
    Linda Frey, Marsha Frey
    Pages 97-139
  6. Instruments of the Revolution: Language and Dress
    Linda Frey, Marsha Frey
    Pages 141-176
  7. “Empire of Images”: The Deployment of Symbols
    Linda Frey, Marsha Frey
    Pages 177-217
  8. “Quite in the Clouds”: French Emissaries Abroad
    Linda Frey, Marsha Frey
    Pages 219-257
  9. Conclusion: Return to the Old
    Linda Frey, Marsha Frey
    Pages 259-285
  10. Back Matter
    Pages 287-300
    PDF

About this book

Introduction

This book examines the culture of the French diplomatic corps from 1789 to 1799. It analyzes how the French revolutionaries attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to transform the diplomatic culture of the old regime, notably in etiquette, language and dress and how the ideology and dynamic of the Revolution affected certain aspects of international affairs.

Linda Frey is Professor of History at the University of Montana, US

Marsha Frey is Professor of History at Kansas State University, US

Keywords

French Emissaries Ancien Régime Republican France Theater of Power Republican Virtue Aristocratic Code Versailles Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen Louis XV Louis XVI Leibniz Mably Fénélon Montesquieu Rousseau Diderot Holbach Bassville in Rome Bernadotte in Vienna Thermidor

Authors and affiliations

  • Linda Frey
    • 1
  • Marsha Frey
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of HistoryUniversity of MontanaMissoula, MTUSA
  2. 2.Department of HistoryKansas State UniversityManhattan, KSUSA

Bibliographic information