Concept
Enragés
Overview
political faction during the French revolution
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During the night of December 1 and 2, the Parisian proletariat was robbed of its leaders and chiefs of barricades by a raid of Bonaparte’s. An army without officers, disinclined by the recollections of June, 1848 and 1849, and May, 1850, to fight under the banner of the Montagnards, it left to its vanguard, the secret societies, the work of saving the insurrectionary honor of Paris, which the bourgeoisie had yielded…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Close in meaning to Enragés; the term itself is not named.
On the morrow, which is the 3rd of May, 1788, an astonished Parlement sits convoked; listens speechless to the speech of D’Espréménil, unfolding the infinite misdeed. Deed of treachery; of unhallowed darkness, such as Despotism loves! Denounce it, O Parlement of Paris; awaken France and the Universe; roll what thunder-barrels of forensic eloquence thou hast: with thee too it is verily Now or never! The Parlement is…
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution
Close in meaning to Enragés; the term itself is not named.
The history of all the preceding kings of England since the conquest, gives evident proofs of the disorders attending the feudal institutions; the licentiousness of the barons, their spirit of rebellion against the prince and laws, and of animosity against each other: the conduct of the barons in the transmarine dominions of those monarchs, afforded perhaps still more flagrant instances of these convulsions; and the…
David Hume, The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part A.
Close in meaning to Enragés; the term itself is not named.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.