The levée en masse, 12 August 1793. This image represents the patriotic response to the National Convention's decree call for a massive mobilization of the nation to save the Revolution from defeat by the allied forces of Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain. The scenes depict some "sans culottes" of Paris (working people who did not wear aristocratic breaches) moving patriotically to enlist in the army. Once in uniform of the Army of the Republic, two soldier citizens march off to the battle front in the east of France. One year earlier, a very similar moment of foreign invasion and danger led
The levée en masse, 12 August 1793. This image represents the patriotic response to the National Convention's decree call for a massive mobilization of the nation to save the Revolution from defeat by the allied forces of Austria, Prussia, and Great Britain. The scenes depict some "sans culottes" of Paris (working people who did not wear aristocratic breaches) moving patriotically to enlist in the army. Once in uniform of the Army of the Republic, two soldier citizens march off to the battle front in the east of France. One year earlier, a very similar moment of foreign invasion and danger led in July 1792 to the mobilization of volunteers to come to Paris and join the war effort. The volunteers from the Mediterranean city of Marseilles, came to Paris singing what came to be the French National Anthem, La Marseillaise. These two mobilizations were instrumental in forging a new conception of nationalism in the idea of "a nation in arms." . French: La levée en masse, 12 Août 1793 . circa 1793. 808 Levee en masse
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