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Sharing Freedom: Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France provides a critical analysis of the Revolutionary period’s fundamental contradictions. Geneviève Rousselière investigates how French republicanism simultaneously promoted radical ideas of universal freedom while maintaining and reinforcing various forms of political and social exclusion.
The book examines the mechanisms through which revolutionary leaders justified limiting citizenship rights despite proclaiming universal liberty. Rousselière traces the intellectual and political debates that shaped how different groups—including women, enslaved peoples, religious minorities, and the propertyless—were excluded from full participation in the new republic. This work contributes to our understanding of how revolutionary ideals were compromised and transformed through political necessity and ideological constraints, ultimately revealing the complex relationship between republican theory and exclusionary practice during this transformative historical period.
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