• DOI:10.1017/S000893890001150X
• Corpus ID: 144043871

Echoes of the French Revolution in the Rhineland, 1830–1849

@article{Sperber1989EchoesOT,
  title={Echoes of the French Revolution in the Rhineland, 1830–1849},
  author={Jonathan Sperber},
  journal={Central European History},
  year={1989},
  volume={22},
  pages={200 - 217}
}

• Jonathan Sperber
• Published 1 June 1989
• History, Economics
• Central European History

Of all the regions of Central Europe, the Rhineland was the one most affected by the French Revolution. The area on the left bank of the Rhine belonged for almost two full decades to the First French Republic and the Napoleonic Empire; parts of the right bank were, for a shorter period, under the rule of the Napoleonic satellite state, the Grand Duchy of Berg. In studying these unusual circumstances, historians have sometimes focused on short-term political implications, asking how the Rhenish population of the 1790s responded to the Jacobin regime. They have also studied the long-term social and economic effects of the revolutionary legislation and the secularization of church lands.