De la question frumentaire à l'idée d'une " économie morale " sous la Seconde République
Abstracts
We try to reappreciate here the aspects of conflicts and debates of the French Second Republic that are related to the susbsistances problem. At first sight, it seems that its contribution to popular mobilizations and to peasants and workers red votes of the period is quite secondary. But we show that, as a corpus of values and believes, E.P. Thompson's moral economy of the crowd was rich and strong enough to remain present, in popular mentalities of the early nineteenth century, although opportunities for food protest were suppressed by the improvement of the agricultural economic conjuncture after the crisis of 1846-1847. On the contrary, this moral economy influences the ideologies of 1848. We specially pay attention here to the legacy of revolutionary politics of food provisioning, to the debates about industrial and trade monopolies, to the connections between the right to work and the right to subsistence, and finally to the metaphoric uses of food, eating and abundancy, during the French Second republic. And we show that the popular culture of subsistence has been one the ways of mental integration and acceptance of the republican and socialist ideals by the masses.
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Nicolas Bourguinat, “De la question frumentaire à l'idée d'une " économie morale " sous la Seconde République”, Cahiers d'histoire [Online], 43-2 | 1998, Online since , connection on 28 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ch/170; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ch.170
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