Darnton referred many times to the amount of people that were involved in the revolution. Not everyone may have joined the Jacobin clubs, but almost everyone participated in some manner. With this involvement came a sense of comradery. Darnton seemed to be amazed at this sense of comradery. Referring to a speech given by A.-A. Lamourette

I feel Darnton did a great job proving that the revolution was revolutionary. Just looking at the title of the article, I thought he was going to try to prove that it wasn't revolutionary, but he totally did the opposite. I think that people feel that the French Revolution was just one of many Revolutions, such as the American and Russian revolutions, but it was not. It was very much unlike other revolutionary movements and Darnton does a great job at convincing the reading of that point. I really enjoyed reading this article. It really helped change some of my views on the French Revolution.

Darnton also points at the idea of popular sovereignty that arose during the revolution as a source of proving revolutionary status. He points out that during the Old Regime that is was common assumption that men were unequaland that this was a positi

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