Laura Mason is the author of The Last Revolutionaries. She writes about politics, popular culture and the press during the French Revolution. Her book focuses on Gracus Babuf's conspiracy trial in the equals. If you want to show your appreciation for this podcast, please support it at patreon.com slash the dig.
Featuring Laura Mason on her book The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. Mason discusses Babeuf's call to abolish property, his radically egalitarian conspiracy against the Directory government, and the end of the French Revolution. How a centrist government turned its back on popular democracy, presided over growing inequality and working-class poverty, and abetted the rise of the reactionary right that would ultimately overthrow it.
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