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- Title
'A NATION OF GAMESTERS': VIRTUE, THE WILL OF THE NATION, AND THE NATIONAL LOTTERY IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
- Authors
KRUCKEBERG, ROBERT
- Abstract
This article discusses the debates surrounding the French National Lottery during the French Revolution from the beginning of the Revolution until the lottery's suppression in November 1793. It argues that the lottery stood at a point of intersection and contradiction between two strains of revolutionary thought: popular sovereignty and virtue. The lottery was both popular and widely regarded as a vice. As such, it led to many debates about the very nature of the 'people' and their ability to rule themselves in this new republican political environment. In the end, the suppression of the lottery represented the triumph of elite notions of virtue over popular governance.
- Subjects
FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799; LOTTERIES; SOVEREIGNTY; BURKE, Edmund, 1729-1797; HISTORY
- Publication
French History, 2017, Vol 31, Issue 3, p310
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crx035