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In this brilliantly conceived book, Christopher Hilliard reveals the extraordinary history of "ordinary" voices. In capturing the creative lives of ordinary people-would-be fiction-writers and poets who until now have left scarcely a mark on written history-Hilliard sensitively reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age.

Arguing that the French have cherished and demonized Jacobinism at the same time-their hearts following Robespierre, but their heads turning toward Benjamin Constant-Rosanvallon traces the long history of resistance to Jacobinism, including the creation of associations and unions and the implementation of elements of decentralization.