The Role of the Nation in the French Revolution

Hobbes said that there's no such thing as a general will in any state. But you'll also see one of the things that kind of emerges in the French Revolution is this talk of peoples and nations. So to speak about it in France, they need something to kind of replace the city as a concept to scale the Republic up. The concept of the nation seems to play a big role in a lot of that thought and doing it.