sition, and would not have benefitted the peasants in any way, but rather would have benefitted the nobility in a number of ways.
The peasants, in other words, were primed for their role in the Revolution to come.
Furet and Richet write that the revolution of the peasants was the third arm of the upheaval of the French Revolution.
The revolution of the deputies of the Third Estate, consolidated by the revolution in Paris, was now further strengthened by the peaceful municipal revolution achieved by the provincial towns . . . The intellectual and political cohesion of the bourgeoisies of Paris and the provinces naturally acted as a strong unifying force in such circumstances. But there was another rev
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